 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 Seiten
....General. merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces... | |
 | William Coutts Keppel Earl of Albemarle - 1865 - 510 Seiten
...great grandfathers of the danger of coercing the thirteen colonies : — " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can...government. Seas roll, and months pass between the order and execution, and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1866 - 646 Seiten
...passed by the Assemblies. 6 " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them," said Mr. Burke. " No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government." Adam Smith observed: — "Their situation has placed them less in the view and less in the power of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 Seiten
...Attorney-General, merely moral, but laid deep in the natural const itution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 Seiten
...weakening government, which no contrivance can prevent. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order aal the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation...single point is enough to defeat a whole system." This, said Burke, was a weakness inherent in all great and widely-extended EmpiiH: the Turk could not... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 Seiten
...constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can pro vent the effect of this distance in weakening government....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. You have, indeed, " winged ministers" of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1877 - 332 Seiten
...it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can...single point is enough to defeat a whole system." He said in another part of the same speech : " But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 Seiten
...it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ow contradict the whole oracles of God, which declare...children being not yet born, neither having done any the whole system. You have, indeed, "winged ministers " of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 Seiten
...it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of 2U E* 4 ! DBqv vG Pt m \M Ȋ " PF ' 0 tQ z i F _ 89[f( n g y eI Mh v }á{ Sens roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation... | |
 | 1878 - 446 Seiten
...it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can...have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry youi bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But there a power steps in, that limits... | |
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The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can... 
