| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 582 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 eveiy tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies k hardly less powerful... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 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... | |
| Readers - 1878 - 446 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 The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the Colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
| Sutton Selwyn Scott - Southern States - 1880 - 340 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.' " Guy was strongly impressed with the soundness of his uncle's views, as well as the parental affection... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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. ,75 ^^8. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
| Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1880 - 228 pages
...of New England with the colonial charter. Burke, in his speech on conciliation with America, says, " they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." This is not surprising when we consider the character of the Puritans. They were the men to appreciate... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1882 - 350 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." It would seem to be impossible for human speech more fitly or forcibly to compass the influence of... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1882 - 346 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." It would seem to be impossible for human speech more fitly or forcibly to compass the influence of... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...FIFTH READER. 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.1 The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
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