 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - Liczba stron: 676
...diflentions which may, from time to time, on great queftions, agitate the feveral communities which compofe a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal juftice to this great public conteft. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment againft... | |
 | 1792 - Liczba stron: 650
...which may, from time to time, •on great queftionc, agitate the Jeveral communities which compofe a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply tlie ordinary ideas of criminal juflice 10 •this great public conteft. I do not knvw the .metttd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - Liczba stron: 330
...diffentions which may, from time to time, on great queftions, agitate the feveral communities which compote a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal juftice to this great public conteft. I do not knew the method of drawing up an indictment againft... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - Liczba stron: 502
...exposes as impossible in \ the execution, and consequently absurd in the attempt. ' I,' says he, ' do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' He went on to other effects which might be expected from perseverance in an endeavour which the colonies... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - Liczba stron: 518
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - Liczba stron: 512
...individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions,...compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1819 - Liczba stron: 574
...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... | |
 | 1897 - Liczba stron: 808
...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 - 1824 - Liczba stron: 126
...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... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - 1824 - Liczba stron: 120
...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... | |
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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. 
