 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sider
...communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar. I hope I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 sider
...exposes as impossible in \ the execution, and consequently absurd in the attempt. ' I,' says he, ' do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' He went on to other effects which might be expected from perseverance in an endeavour which the colonies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 sider
...communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual, (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sider
...me to be narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual* at the bar. I am not ripe to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sider
...me to be narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual* at the bar. I am not ripe to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 sider
...communities •which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 sider
...communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual, (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 sider
...communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 sider
...communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest....insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke iusulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - 574 sider
...nor virtue left on the earth. Mr. Burke said, in his speech on the Conciliation with America — " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 1 cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures. I am not , ripe to pass... | |
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... great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. 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... 
