 | 1775 - 868 pages
...violence. A further oVijeftirm to force is, that Too impair tbt otjetl by your very endbavours ro preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated, lunk, wafted, and confuijied in the conleft. Nothing lefs will content me, than inhale America. I do... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
.... A further objection to force is, that you itnpair the objeEl by your very endeavours to preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover ; but depreciated, funk, wafted, and confumed in the contefl. Nothing. lefs will content me, than wbole America. I do... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...authority are fometimes bought by kindnefs ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverifhed and defeated violence. - A further objection to force is, that you impair the objeft by your very endeavours to preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are fomedmes bought by kindnefs ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverished...further objection to force is, that you impair the objefl by your very endeavours to preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...;*i A further objection to force is, that you impair the objeR by your very endeavours to preferve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you • you recover ,; but depreciated, funk, wafted, and confumed in the conteft. Nothing lefs will content... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought...by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing power of our country loses its dignity, is dearly bought even by... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be 55 begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought...by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing power of our country loses its dignity, is dearly bought even by... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be £5 begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. * * * * A concession in which the governing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...; for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought...defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that yonVwpazr the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing... | |
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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... 
