America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... British and American Eloquence - Seite 25von Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1912 - 403 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 Seiten
...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| 1775 - 868 Seiten
...but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, Gentlemen fay, is a noble objeft. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting people be the beft way of liaising them. Gentlemen in this refpecl will be led to their choice of means... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 Seiten
...admitted in the grofs-; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| 1799 - 576 Seiten
...country. I fubftitute the word Ireland for America. Ireland [ 100 ] " Ireland is a noble objeft — it is an object well worth fighting for- Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Men in this refpedt will be led to their choice of means, by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 Seiten
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a diflerent conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 454 Seiten
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, jf fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led-to their... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 Seiten
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 Seiten
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 Seiten
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 Seiten
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclu» sion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth... | |
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