 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1892 - 294 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... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 508 pages
...independence in the Colonies, he names their familiarity with English law, which enabled them to " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." The political career of Giddings recalls these passages and aptly illustrates their force. Whoever... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Abolitionists - 1892 - 682 pages
...independence in the Colonies, he names their familiarity with English law, which enabled them to " augur misgovernment \ at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in I every tainted breeze." The political career of Gid- ' dings recalls these passages and aptly illustrates... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1924 - 608 pages
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernmcnt at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Today the change that has come with the years finds expression in the action of the Texas sheriff who... | |
 | Don Krasher Price - Political Science - 1965 - 344 pages
...American revolutionary thought not to egalitarian theorists, but to the lawyers, who, he remarked, "augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 3 He might well have added the dissenting clergy, whose churches were among centers of antimonarchical... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1879 - 278 pages
...The philosophic Burke tells us that it is the profession which teaches men to "augur misgovern rnent at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." (Applause.) The masters of the law have been the foremost in moulding all the great epochs of progress.... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...here they anticipate the evil and judge 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."3 That tactic, the British opposition tactic of claiming civil and political rights by stating... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 592 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." These words of Mr. Burke are as applicable to the soldiers of '61-5 as to their patriot sires of 1776.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 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... | |
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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... 
