 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 sivua
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every taiiite_dj>reeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 sivua
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgoverument at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. " The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest,... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - 674 sivua
...American affairs, 1775, he speaks of them as that profession which teaches men to " augur misgovemment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." He has certainly underrated the lawyers of the National Assembly. In England, owing to the organization... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 sivua
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgoverninent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1856 - 678 sivua
...In his speech on American affairs, 1775, he speaks of them as that profession which teaches men to " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." He has certainly underrated the lawyers of the National Assembly. In England, owing to the organization... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 sivua
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgov eminent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. (6.) The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful . . . . J r,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 sivua
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff' the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." The peroration of this speech is uncommonly fine: " My hold of the colonies," added Mr. Burke, " is... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 sivua
...judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 2 Burke's Works, 38. The last observation was verified in the sudden and general alarm which was excited... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 sivua
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Such was the superiority of Otis over every other member of the house in talents, information, and... | |
 | Henry Simpson - 1859 - 1170 sivua
...was one of those discerning keen-sighted patriots who, in the language of an eloquent statesman, " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." No less prompt to act than vigilant to discover, he was among the first to raise his voice and extend... | |
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In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They... 
