 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...exposes as impossible in \ the execution, and consequently absurd in the attempt. ' I,' says he, ' do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' He went on to other effects which might be expected from perseverance in an endeavour which the colonies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...narrow and pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke iusulted... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation." . . . " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." These are sentences which will outlast many constitutions, and, like so much of what Burke said, they... | |
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 
