 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 of...  The Eclectic Review - Pagina 379geredigeerd door - 1829Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 118 pagina’s
...I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. "We cannot, 1 fear, falsify the pedigree of this tierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung...The language in which they would hear you tell them is this tale would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 pagina’s
...contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your ruin. Spoliatis arrna supersunt.™ 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 pagina’s
...contribute to your prosperity may be strong enough to complete your ruin. Spoliatis anna supersunt. The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circufates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition.... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - 1921 - 320 pagina’s
...do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do." Then he had a ripe sense of irony: "The temper and character which prevail in our colonies...am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, 1 fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pagina’s
...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 - 316 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 pagina’s
...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 - 1056 pagina’s
...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 - 412 pagina’s
...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 - 1995 - 446 pagina’s
...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... | |
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