 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...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...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual, (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...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...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar *. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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...millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke iusulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar*. I am not ripe to pass sentence... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...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... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation." . . . " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." These are sentences which will outlast many constitutions, and, like so much of what Burke said, they... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 120 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. LETTER VI. HG OTIS. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 126 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. HG OTJS. LETTER VI. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public _Ob m4c g l.(7 Zҧ a" u4 @# 1j M) T ~ V ߑ an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of ray fellow -creatures, as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...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 against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - Man (Theology) - 1836 - 250 pages
...impossibility. But is the following, occurring just before in the same speech, physically impossible? 'I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar.' Speech on Conciliation iirith America. Webster. — ' This court,... | |
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... 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 against a whole people. 
