 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 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...justice to this great public contest. I do not know the 25 method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...have cared to deny that the wisdom of his age yielded to that of his confident youth when he said " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Until the end of time there can be no other last word in defence of Revolution. How much of the artist... | |
 | 1909 - 512 pages
...Expenditure for naval armaments is everywhere growing by leaps and bounds. Edmund Burke said that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people; but perhaps it may be easier to detect some of the signs of emotional insanity than to draw an indictment... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...though they could "prosecute that spirit [of American independence] as criminal" and Burke replies: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Conciliation, far from disrupting the empire, was the only way of preserving it. "Such is steadfastly... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1988 - 790 pages
...exercise their own judgment. (Incidentally, Burke would have favoured State immunity, since he did not "know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people".) That and other considerations derived from ITA 6 persuade me that there is a good deal to be said for... | |
 | Robert Lloyd Kelley - 1990 - 492 pages
...argued that the colonists were committing a criminal act in being rebellious, he made the famous reply, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." And when others began by tortuous legal argument to prove that Britain was right in what she was doing,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pages
...of teaching, and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service. — James A. Perkins I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. — Edmund Burke God must have loved the common people because he made so many of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 pages
...civil dissent ions 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 my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...enemy of my enemy is my friend; the friend of my enemy is my enemy." Arab proverb Enmity of nations: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Edmund Burke, 1775 Enmity, poor basis for policy: "No quarrel ought ever to be converted into a policy."... | |
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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. 
