| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. • First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...for want of this know, ledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...for want of this knowledge, ray opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than offeree; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of furce alone is but temporary. It mav subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force; considering force not as an odious but a feeble instrument,...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually... | |
| England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...men, are the strength and resources of all inferior power. • • • I look on force, not only as nn odious, but a feeble instrument, for preserving a people so numerous, so growing, and so spirited as this, in a profitableandsubordiuatp connexion. First, the use of force... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favour of prudent management, than of force ; considering force not as an odious but a feeble instrument,...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary; it... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...prudent management than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument, fbr preserving a people, so numerous, so active, so growing-,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate connexion with us. First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary; it... | |
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