 hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our ancestors, have been happy under that system. Let the memory of all actions,...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 495by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...rights, not attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions ; I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as...stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy rontest, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our ancestors, have been happy under that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1775 - 64 pages
...them. Leave the Americans as they antiently flood and thefe diftino lions, born of our unhappy-conteft, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our anceftors, have been happy under that fyftem. Let the memory of all actions, in contradiction to that... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1792 - 608 pages
...them. Leave the Americans as they anciently flood, and thefe diftinCtions, born of our unhappy conteft, will die along with it. They, and we, and their and our anceftors, have been happy under that fyftem. Let the memory of all aCtions, in contradiCtion to that... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions; I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as...our ancestors, have been happy under that system. Oppose the ancient policy and practice of the empire as a rampart against the speculations of innovators,... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1802 - 568 pages
...Leave the Americans as they an" ciently ftood, and thefe diiiinctions, born of " our unhappy conteft, will die along with it. " They, and we, and their and our anceftors, " have been happy under that lyftem. Let " the memory of all aftions, in contradiclion f... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 456 pages
...them. Leave the Americans as they anciently flood, and thefe diftinctions, born of our unhappy conteft, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our anceftors, have been happy under that fyftem. -Let the memory of all actions, in contradi&ion to that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions ; I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as...stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy • Mr. Fuller contest, will die along with it. They and we, and their and our ancestors, have been... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans as...contradiction to that good old mode, on both sides, be extinguished for ever. Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it. Let... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them. Leave the Americans,...contradiction to that good old mode, on both sides, be extinguished for ever. Be content to bind America by laws of trade ; you have always done it. Let... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 568 pages
...deduced from the whole the following recommendation: "Leave the " Americans as they anciently stood : they and we, and their and our ancestors, have been happy under that system. Oppose the ancient policy and practice of the " empire, as a rampart against the speculations of innova"... | |
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