 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...into the bone of manhood. to take her own way to perfection ; when I _reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink,_and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. /'. Ba+e. B cxm. THE RIGHT OF ENGLAND TO TAX AMERICA. UT, Mr. Speaker, " we have a right to tax America."... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection, — when I reflect npon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. BUBKJL 41. PANDEMONIUM. QINCE I had the honor, I should say, the dishonor, of sitting ^ in this house,... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents, I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. ... A nation is not governed which is... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...suffered to take her own way to perfection, — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see ho;v profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride...power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivance?* melt and. die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." Burke went on to show that, in these... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...the ant arctic circle. take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects — when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the epirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have as..econd general serted 'n my detail... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection, —when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...human contrivances melt and die away within me, — my rigour relents, — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. SPEECH ON ECONOMICAL REFORM.6 Mn.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection, — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances mell and die away within me, — my rigour relents, — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects— when than to enjoy all that office can bestow— office,...emoluments superfluous, to one, content, with the rest o rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. "Natural History," and is to the effect... | |
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... nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection... 
