 No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode...  Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America - Page 54by Edmund Burke - 1920 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed...I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...it has been pufhcd by this recent people ; a people who are (till, as it were, bet in' the griille, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate thefe things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...it were, but in the griftle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When 1 contemplate thefe things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not fqueezed into this happy form by the conftraints... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...which it has been pufhed by this recent people; a people who are ftill, as it were, but in the griftle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. . When I contemplate thefe things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and... | |
 | Biography - 1800 - 702 pages
...were but in the griftle, and not yet hardened into the hone of manhood. " When I contemplate tlicfe things; when I know that the colonies in general, owe little or nothing to any care of curs, and that they are not fqueezed into rbi* happy form by the conftraints... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...to which i: has been puflied by this recent people ; who are ftill, as it were, but in the griftle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate thefe things; when I know that the Colonies in general owe. little or nothing to any care of ours,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...it were, but in the griftle, and not yet hardened intO'the bone of manhood. When I contemplate thefe things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not fqueezed into this happy form by the conftraints... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...it has been pufhed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill, as it were, but in the griftle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate thefe things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours,... | |
 | Domenico Alberto Azuni - Maritime law - 1806 - 462 pages
...the dexterous and firm sagacity " of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of " hardy industry, to the extent to which it has been...are still, as it were, but in " the gristle, and not hardened into the bone of manhood." Burke's Speech, for conciliation u'Hli tie American colonies. —... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been...I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints... | |
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