 | George Bancroft - United States - 1858 - 454 pages
...liberty has grown up. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to prosecute that spirit as criminal ; to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to...of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. " My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...supported by eleven provinces more. He felt, as Burke at the same period truly and finely said, that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.* There remained then only the hope, perhaps too sanguine, yet such as full success had crowned in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...individuals, or even of hands of men, who disturh order within the state, and the civil dissensions r your eves, you might have passed them hv and he narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great puhlic contest.... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1862 - 614 pages
...of men who disturb order within the state — and the civil dissensions which may from time to time agitate the several communities which compose a great...pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal o(/r€ Hvrepuv vfpl MnvXrjvcuwi' ofa-f fined, and wholly limited to the policy Ktrri]yopfi<rair oil... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...which compose a great empire It looks to me to be uarrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice tor this great public contest.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...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... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Reconstruction - 1868 - 36 pages
...a wise public policy. We have not attempted to " draw up an indictment against a whole people," or to "apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest." We challenge a .comparison with the wars against rebellions ; and we claim that the suppression of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 562 pages
...to be employed ? I remember that Burke, in his great effort on Conciliation with America, says : " It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply...know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." l But when, on account of a provision in the Constitution obviously intended only... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 566 pages
...to be employed ? I remember that Burke, in his great effort 011 Conciliation with America, says : " It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinaiy ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest ; I do not know the method of drawing... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...to be employed ? I remember that Burke, in his great effort on Conciliation with America, says : " It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply...know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." 1 But when, on account of a provision in the Constitution obviously intended only... | |
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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. 
