My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation... English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray - Page 256edited by - 1888 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1775 - 868 pages
...armament is not a victory. If jmido Cot fucceed, you are without reTource; for, conciliation falling, force remains; but, forc,e failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power *nd authority are fotnetirnes bought by lindnefs ; but they can never be begged » alms, by an impoveriftied... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...eflect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not fucceed, you are without refource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force...of reconciliation is left. Power and authority a,re fometimes bought by kindnefs ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverifhed and defeated... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not fucceed, you are without refource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force...of reconciliation' is left. Power and authority are fometimes bought by kindnefs ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverifhed and defeated... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are fomedmes bought by kindnefs ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverished...further objection to force is, that you impair the objefl by your very endeavours to preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...power. * * * * Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing power of our country loses its dignity, is dearly bought even by... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...power. * * * * Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be 55 begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...power. * * * * Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing power of our country loses its dignity, is dearly bought even by... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...force remains; but, force failing, no further hope of recon491] 15 GEORGE Ш. ciu.it ion is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ;... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...power. * * * * Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be £5 begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resourse ; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force...defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that yonVwpazr the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing... | |
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