 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 110 pages
...knowledge, my 25 opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 168 pages
...have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. ' But I confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 pages
...my opinion is much more in favor of prudent manage15 ment than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | 1899 - 616 pages
...knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 468 pages
...knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way IO of gaining them. . . . But I confess, . . . my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management...but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing, so spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 168 pages
...may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But I confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so active, so growing,... | |
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Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But I confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more... 
