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" ... is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 47
by Edmund Burke - 1801
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 2

David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 458 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 5

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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English & American Literature, Studies in Literary Criticism ..., Volume 3

Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1902 - 316 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover ; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me, than whole America. I do not...
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Orators of Great Britain and Ireland

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 448 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. .Nothing less will content me than whole America. 1 do not...
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Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and Liberty

T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
..." A further objection to force is that you impair the " object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you "recover, but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and con" sumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me " than whole America. I do...
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Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1906, Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 592 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover, but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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English Composition

Hammond Lamont - English language - 1906 - 394 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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High School English: A Manual of Composition and Literature

Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - English language - 1906 - 296 pages
...violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover ; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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English Compositon

Hammond Lamont - English language - 1906 - 404 pages
...conquered. A further objection to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not...
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