 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 1036 pages
...seeing he has the disposition, but the determined resistance of the people, who are accustomed "to anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff up the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." If then, sir, you will not defend New England,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1857 - 728 pages
...the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the...grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgoverninent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 1032 pages
...seeing he has the disposition, but the determined resistance of the people, who are accustomed "to anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of...grievance by the badness of the principle. '• They augur misgovern men t at a distance, and snuff up the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." If then,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil,...grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgov eminent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. (6.) The... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - History - 1856 - 678 pages
...In his speech on American affairs, 1775, he speaks of them as that profession which teaches men to " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." He has certainly underrated the lawyers of the National Assembly. In England, owing to the organization... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil,...approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." The peroration of this speech is uncommonly fine: " My hold of the colonies," added Mr. Burke, " is in... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the...badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 2 Burke's Works, 38. The... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...countries the people, more simple, of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Such was the superiority of Otis over every other member of the house in talents, information, and... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 390 pages
...the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."* A wise government, dealing with three millions of subjects of such a spirit, and at so great a distance,... | |
 | Henry Simpson - History - 1859 - 1186 pages
...was one of those discerning keen-sighted patriots who, in the language of an eloquent statesman, " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." No less prompt to act than vigilant to discover, he was among the first to raise his voice and extend... | |
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This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance.... 
