 This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance...  The works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 188by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance....grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgoveminent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial6 cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance...and snuff the approach of tyranny in 'every tainted breeze.7 The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the Colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1924 - 608 pages
...mind. "In other countries," he said, "the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance;...grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernmcnt at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Today the... | |
 | Don Krasher Price - Political Science - 1965 - 344 pages
...American revolutionary thought not to egalitarian theorists, but to the lawyers, who, he remarked, "augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 3 He might well have added the dissenting clergy, whose churches were among centers of antimonarchical... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Political Science - 1983 - 176 pages
...cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance; here [in the American colonies] they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle."8 Colonial patriots were inclined to invoke principles whenever they could — inclined,... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...countries," Edmund Burke explained, "the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance,... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 592 pages
...the northward. * * * In other countries the people more simple, of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance;...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." These words of Mr. Burke are as applicable to the soldiers of '61-5 as to their patriot sires of 1776.... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...countries," Edmund Burke explained, "the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance,... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - History - 1993 - 172 pages
...current ministry: "Abeunt studio in mores. " The Americans, as a necessary result, are well equipped to "augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Finally, the very physical character of Anglo-American relations thwarts arbitrary rule. The "disobedient... | |
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