 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
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 30 authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they...force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing 35 you fought for is not the thing which you recover ; but depreciated,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1894 - 120 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...further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 30 authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1894 - 408 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...further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and 3o authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished... | |
 | William Edward Mead - English language - 1894 - 298 pages
...structure appears in the. following paragraph from Burke's speech on Conciliation Si •with America: — "A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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...preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing you recover ; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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...preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing you recover ; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect offeree; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation...force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover — but depreciated,... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 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...impoverished and defeated violence. . " A further objection is, that you impair the object by your endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 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...impoverished and defeated violence. " A further objection is, that you impair the object by your endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 438 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...impoverished and defeated violence. " A further objection is, that you impair the object by your endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the... | |
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