 People ; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Σελίδα 3451848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 136 σελίδες
...English in 1765, and later by the Spaniards. Since 1833 it has been in the possession of England. of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable 5 they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered 490 to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable... | |
 | 1900 - 500 σελίδες
...the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary negleot, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection—when I reflect upon these effects—when I see how profitable they have been to us, I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 182 σελίδες
...not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious govern- , 10 ment, but that through a wise and salutary neglect a,' generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection;—when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 450 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...— when i see how profitable they have been to us, 1 feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1904 - 880 σελίδες
...happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise anil salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered...I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 368 σελίδες
...unprecedented phenomenon. He tells us that the colonies had made this marvellous growth because, " through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature...been suffered to take her own way to perfection." But by that " wise and salutary neglect " he meant freedom from the petty and short-sighted meddlesomeness... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1906 - 176 σελίδες
...ing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I re20 fleet upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1908 - 108 σελίδες
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take 25 her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1908 - 678 σελίδες
...colonies," said Burke, " in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, . . . but through a wise ami salutary neglect a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection." could be carried only to England, and—perhaps most important of all—foreign goods could not be... | |
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