America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... British and American Eloquence - Stran 25avtor: Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1912 - 403 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 strani
...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| 1775 - 868 strani
...but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, Gentlemen fay, is a noble objeft. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting people be the beft way of liaising them. Gentlemen in this refpecl will be led to their choice of means... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 strani
...admitted in the grofs-; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| 1799 - 576 strani
...country. I fubftitute the word Ireland for America. Ireland [ 100 ] " Ireland is a noble objeft — it is an object well worth fighting for- Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Men in this refpedt will be led to their choice of means, by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 strani
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a diflerent conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 454 strani
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, jf fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led-to their... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 strani
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 strani
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 strani
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 strani
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclu» sion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth... | |
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