 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 Seiten
...death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which how attracts the envy of the world. p. ils. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. j>. us. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1904 - 232 Seiten
...cases , are apt to heighten .and raise the subject, have here__a^, ?• tendency to_sink itA \ WrTeh we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is i unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So Tar, Sir, ~as~to the importance of the object in... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 586 Seiten
...choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is untruthful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as to the importance of the object in view... | |
 | ENGLISH & American masterpiece studies - 1906 - 408 Seiten
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. [28] So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 280 Seiten
...choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details, because generalities, which, in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. I pass to the Colonies in another point of view — their agriculture. This they have prosecuted with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1906 - 176 Seiten
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details, because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...commerce with our Colonies, fiction lags after truth, Z5 invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the... | |
 | 1896 - 728 Seiten
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details, because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth,1 invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. 28. So far, Sir, as to the importance... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 392 Seiten
...which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. 30 When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. 25. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object, in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1907 - 120 Seiten
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details, because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object, in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from Eng' land. If I were to detail the imports,... | |
 | New Jersey. State Board of Agriculture - 1907 - 426 Seiten
...fully express this fact. As stated by Burke, in 1775, when speaking of England's commerce with the colonies, "Fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren." And it is true now, as stated by him then, though in a greater degree, "The Old World has been fed... | |
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I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags... 
