| Nicholas Senn - Manuscripts, English - 1906 - 366 pages
...island for commercial gain, and to extend her sovereignty in the South Seas, which only confirms that All government — indeed, every human benefit and...prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. BURKE. After Cook's departure, nearly eleven years elapsed before another European ship called at Tahiti,... | |
| Edward Latham - Quotations - 1906 - 338 pages
...— in a private letter from him, dated Apr. 21, 1880. All government, indeed every human beneñtand enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter. EDMUND BURKE, (1729-97) — in a speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. „ DR. PARR... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1906 - 176 pages
...argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it to- 10 gether. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking and convincing... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1907 - 120 pages
...*H Was true that up to that time the demand of the Colonies had not been for Independence. support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole...every prudent act, is founded on /^compromise and 'liarterM We balance inconveniences; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1908 - 108 pages
...argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop is very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole...This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All gov- 20 eminent, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1909 - 580 pages
...argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very abort of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole...could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you a very striking and convincing instance of it. This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All... | |
| Helena Nordhoff Gargan - Lawyers - 1910 - 184 pages
...despairing of uniting the colonies under the Federal Union, and realizing, in the language of Burke, that "all government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter," were forced to accept some compromises, and recognized the existence of slavery, though every Southern... | |
| Helena Nordhoff Gargan - Lawyers - 1910 - 184 pages
...despairing of uniting the colonies under the Federal Union, and realizing, in the language of Burke, that "all government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter," were forced to accept some compro102 mises, and recognized the existence of slavery, though every Southern... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 136 pages
...distinguish between concession and capitulation, of course, but as Burke observed, "All governments, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue...and every prudent act, is founded on compromise." ******* The modern executive must present to the modern legislature the programs he believes to be... | |
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