 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1846 - 630 pages
...forth. But the predominance of the profession of the law, — that profession which teaches men " to augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach...of tyranny in every tainted breeze*," — was the fatal source from which, if we may believe Mr. Burke, have arisen the calamities of France. The majority... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 536 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance, by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Mr. Otis was unanimously chosen to the legislature in May, 1761. The chief topic in debate for the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...and solicitude, fervent prayer ascended to heaven for favor on our arms. Burke said : " The Americans augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." The sense here described was most acute in those whose faculties had been educated and refined in the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 498 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance, by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted teX breeze." Mr. Otis was unanimously chosen to the legislature in May, 1761. The chief topic in debate... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 272 pages
...people to wait till the pressure of the evil principle was felt? No. As an elegant author expressed it, they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The political horizon of America, which some years ago shone with undiminished lustre, and which attracted... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...predominance of the profession of the law, — that professsion which teaches men " to augur misgovsrnment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze,''^ — was the fata? source from which, if we may believe Mr. Burke, have arisen the calamities of France. The majority... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1851 - 854 pages
...forth. But the predominance of the profession of the law, — that profession which teaches men " to augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach...of tyranny in every tainted breeze *," — was the fatal source from which, if we may believe Mr. Burke, have arisen the calamities of France. The majority... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. (6.) The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful , , . . J í... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. (6.) The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardlv less powerful than the rest,... | |
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In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They... 
