 The temper and character, which prevail in our colonies, are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Stran 23avtor: Edmund Burke - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 340 strani
...contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your ruin. Spoliatis arma supersunt. 21 54. The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We can not, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 300 strani
...contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your rum. Spoliatis arma supersunt. The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language hi which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the disposition; your speech would betray... | |
 | R. J. A. White - 1967 - 304 strani
...fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, ' Burke had declared at the height of the struggle, 'and persuade them that they are not sprung from a...nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.' Burke spoke also from the heart of eighteenth-century humanitarianism. The issue had never been, to... | |
 | 1892
...reminded the House of Commons of the stubborn spirit of liberty that the Colonists inherited. ' We cannot falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade...nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.' Might not these words be used of the Ulstermen to-day? To-day too,, as then, the minority say, Such... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 328 strani
...contribute to your prosperity, may be strong enough to complete you ruin. Spoliatis arma supersunt. 60 The temper and character which prevail in our Colonies,...which they would hear you tell them this tale, would 60 Spoliatis arma supersunt 'weapons remain to those who have been plundered' (Juvenal, Satires, vm.124).... | |
 | Don Cook - 1996 - 416 strani
...a Philadelphia packet from Plymouth. The very next day, Edmund Burke spoke to the House of Commons: The temper and character which prevail in our colonies,...of this fierce people, and persuade them that they arc not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which... | |
 | Bruce Lancaster, John Harold Plumb - 2001 - 368 strani
...therefore not only devoted to liberty, but liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates." Although everyone realized the folly of Townshend's measures, the ministers who succeeded him were... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 725 strani
...religious differences had made to encouragement of the characteristic free spirit which animated them: The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. . . . An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into Slavery. Study... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - 2003 - 502 strani
...British Constitution we have far more freedom than any other country on the face of the earth. We have sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates, and who carry everywhere the deepest attachment to their sovereign. It is the spirit of that constitution... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 strani
...contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your ruin. "Spoliatis arma supersunt." The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood ot freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the... | |
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