 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.61 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.61 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 344 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivanccs melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.51... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 884 pages
...salutary neglect, a generous nation has heen suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect on these effects, when I see how profitable they have...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents—I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." It was the "spirit of liberty" which led not... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 pages
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous...suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I see how profitable these effects have been to us, I feel all the pride of power melt and die away within... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 pages
...these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous...suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I see how profitable these effects have been to us, I feel all the pride of power melt and die away within... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered 490 to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable... | |
 | 1901 - 208 pages
...weak are the concessions of fear. The colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature...human contrivances melt and die away within me — my rigor relents — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 192 pages
...not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious govern- • 10 ment, but that through a wise and salutary neglect a generous...of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of 15 human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 pages
...government, but that, through a wise and.Balu.tary neglect, a generous nature has been suf . fered to take her own way to perfection, — when I reflect...human contrivances melt and die away within me, — my rigor relents, — I pardon something to the spiiit^of liberty. '- I am sensible, Sir, that all which... | |
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I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and... 
