 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 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,...method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.15 I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order 20 within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...justice to this great public contest. I do not know the 25 method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 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,...me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary 14 This piece of fustian is taken from Afartinus Scriiltrus, Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry, where... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 392 pages
...words : ' The thing seems a great deal too big for my ideas of jurisprudence. . . . It looks to me narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of...drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' In the latter part of the speech he insists on the necessity of just legislation for ending discontent,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 pages
...that " when a whole people are concerned, acts of lenity are not means of conciliation .... he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Burke's speech on " American taxation " was delivered to a House that was not worthy, on 19th April,... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 392 pages
...men who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on 20 great questions, agitate the several communities which...method of drawing up an indictment against a whole 25 people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir Edward... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1894 - 120 pages
...men who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on 20 great questions, agitate the several communities which...method of drawing up an indictment against a whole 25 people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir Edward... | |
 | Education - 1894 - 904 pages
...Explain. 7. What was the fundamental principle of the English government (n regard to taxation? 8. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Give the meaning. 9. What were the colonists' idea of their relation to the King? To Parliament? 10.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...have cared to deny that the wisdom of his age yielded to that of his confident youth when he said " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Until the end of time there can be no other last word in defence of Revolution. How much of the artist... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 408 pages
...PAGE 135, 31 ff. An expansion of his own famous utterance in the Speech on Conciliation (p. 32) : " 1 do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." PAGE 136, 30. help it, not in the sense now common, of prevent it. It is worth while to notice how... | |
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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. 
