 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 - 1899 - 178 pages
...effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without re- 25 source; for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force...kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an 5 impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1899 - 782 pages
...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, no further hope of reconciliation is left. A further objection to force is that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 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 5 reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never... | |
 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 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 failing, force remains; but, force failing, no farther hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness, but they... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - English language - 1900 - 334 pages
...its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not 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,... | |
 | Edward Harlan Webster - Advertising - 1916 - 456 pages
...Paragraphs 1 and 2 are taken from Edmund Burke's speech before Parliament on Conciliation with America.) 1. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavor to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated,... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - English language - 1917 - 662 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 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,... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 pages
...but, force failing, no further hope of conciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bougM by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms...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,... | |
 | Authur Huntington Nason - English language - 1917 - 552 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 reconcilation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - English language - 1917 - 592 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 conciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be... | |
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