 | Henry Simpson - History - 1859 - 1186 pages
...was one of those discerning keen-sighted patriots who, in the language of an eloquent statesman, " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." No less prompt to act than vigilant to discover, he was among the first to raise his voice and extend... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 558 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. Webster studied this phase of our history. He says our fathers " went to war against a preamble... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 556 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. Webster studied this phase of our history. He says our fathers " went to war against a preamble... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of tho grievance hy the hadness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted hreeze. The last cause of this disohedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 560 pages
...anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They angur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Mr. Webster studied this phase of our history. He says our iathers " went to war against a preamble... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 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." Such was the superiority of Otis over every other member of the house in ta'.ents, information, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 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... | |
 | James F. Johnston - Civil rights - 1862 - 62 pages
...judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Is it probable, then, that men, in whose minds these principles of freedom, and even of democratic... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 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." If the reader will turn to this great speech, one of the greatest ever delivered, he will pereeive,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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... | |
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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... 
