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" Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people... "
Orations and Arguments by English and American Statesmen - Page 15
edited by - 1894 - 378 pages
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and...they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and...they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and...they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary .neglect, a...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and...they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent N people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not compressed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that...
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The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important ..., Volume 2

Barent Gardenier - 1814 - 442 pages
...ourselves ? When in our infancy ; when, to use the language of one of our warmest friends, " we were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood," with a government weak and disorganized-; a people distracted ; without .funds; without resources,...
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A Discourse on Religious Education: Delivered at Hingham, May 10, 1818 ...

Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...individual not very aged may reach hack to the time, when we were, as Mr. Burke described us, ' a people but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood ;' that before that time, little literary labor was to be expected from the poor and hardy adventurers...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...people ; a people who are still, as it were, but ki the gristle, aud not yet hardened into the bone of c manhood. When I contemplate these things ; when I...they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a...
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An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States ...

Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 pages
...Townsend with a fire and force of rhetoric worthy of Demosthenes, and that Burke declared to Parliament, " the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours — a generous nature has with them, taken its own way to perfection." Merits of every kind continued...
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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 1

John Sanderson - 1823 - 300 pages
...industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people, who are still, as it were, in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood." In the beginning of the eighteenth century, the export trade of Great Britain to her American colonies,...
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