 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 582 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in eveiy tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies k hardly less powerful... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. „ «< The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the Colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the Colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | Sutton Selwyn Scott - Southern States - 1880 - 340 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.' " Guy was strongly impressed with the soundness of his uncle's views, as well as the parental affection... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur* misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. ,75 ^^8. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1880 - 228 pages
...of New England with the colonial charter. Burke, in his speech on conciliation with America, says, " they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." This is not surprising when we consider the character of the Puritans. They were the men to appreciate... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1882 - 350 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." It would seem to be impossible for human speech more fitly or forcibly to compass the influence of... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1882 - 346 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." It would seem to be impossible for human speech more fitly or forcibly to compass the influence of... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the Colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...FIFTH READER. the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.1 The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the... | |
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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. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They... 
