 America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits....  Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America - Page 23by Edmund Burke - 1899 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, Gentlemen fay, is a noble objeft. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting people be the beft way of liaising them. Gentlemen in this refpecl will be led to their choice of means... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...admitted in the grofs-; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
 | Ireland - 1799 - 576 pages
...country. I fubftitute the word Ireland for America. Ireland [ 100 ] " Ireland is a noble objeft — it is an object well worth fighting for- Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Men in this refpedt will be led to their choice of means, by their complexions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a diflerent conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, jf fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led-to their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclu» sion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth... | |
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