 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...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,...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does hot remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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 - Great Britain - 1895 - 136 pages
...want of this knowledge, my opinion is mtich more in favour of prudent management, than of force ; 15 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 20 alone is but temporary.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1895 - 154 pages
...for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of jorce ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,...spirited as this, in a profitable and subordinate con- 20 nection with us. ft .jTh'st^ir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 158 pages
...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 con- 20 nection with us. First, Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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.... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 pages
...Macaulay carefully gives references to the places in Croker's edition where the misstatements cited occur. an odious but a feeble instrument for preserving a...as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection to us." This assertion he supports with the following explanation of his reasons for making it: —... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 pages
...Macaulay carefully gives references to the places in Croker's edition where the misstatements cited occur. an odious but a feeble instrument for preserving a...as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection to us." This assertion he supports with the following explanation of his reasons for making it : —... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 440 pages
...Macaulay carefully gives references to the places in Croker's edition where the misstatements cited occur. an odious but a feeble instrument for preserving a...as this, in a profitable and subordinate connection to us." This 'assertion he supports with the following explanation of his reasons for making it : —... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - English language - 1895 - 390 pages
...enclose the words in " ". E. g. : Burke, in his speech on Conciliation with America, p. 177, said : " First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force...is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to... | |
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First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone 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 to be conquered. 
