 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...my own day, and to govern two millions of men impatient of servitude on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...determine what sort of government is fitted for them." In spite of the eloquence and arguments of Burke and Chatham, Lord North's disastrous government persevered... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...determine what sort of government is fitted for them." " I am not here going into the distinctions of rights," he cries, " not attempting to mark their boundaries.... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favor, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favor, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favor, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 344 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favor, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring tranquillity, and the general charScfeT" and situation of a. people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them. That... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...my own day, and to govern 2,000,000 of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law, I am restoring tranquillity; and the general charracter and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them. That... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1885 - 434 pages
...own day, and to govern two million of men, impatient of Servitude, on the principles of Freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of our Colonies into an interest... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...nature, his temper, or his faculties, which should make him an enemy to any republic modern or ancient. The general character and situation of a people must...for them. That point nothing else can or ought to determine.—Appeal from New to Old Whigs. Bolingbroke has one observation which, in my opinion, is... | |
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I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them. 
