 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pages
...civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be...of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be...of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be...of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke iusulted... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 pages
...nor virtue left on the earth. Mr. Burke said, in his speech on the Conciliation with America — " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 1 cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures. I am not , ripe to pass... | |
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation." . . . " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." These are sentences which will outlast many constitutions, and, like so much of what Burke said, they... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - 1824 - 120 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. LETTER VI. HG OTIS. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - 1824 - 126 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. HG OTJS. LETTER VI. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be...know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of ray fellow -creatures, as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...which may, from time to time, on great questions, a.Htate the several communities which compose a peat empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic«, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal l"-ti' с to tliis great publick contest. 1 do not know ih- rnrtluxl of drawing up an indictment against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities ng line of ancestors. The policy appears to an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 
