 It looks to me to be 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.  Notes - Page 173by Thucydides - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...from time to time, ou great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply...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 - 1792 - 676 pages
...from time to time, on great queftions, agitate the feveral communities which compofe a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal juftice to this great public conteft. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment againft... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...from time to time, on great queftions, agitate the feveral communities which compote a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal juftice to this great public conteft. I do not knew the method of drawing up an indictment againft... | |
 | 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
...from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply...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
...me to be 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 - 512 pages
...me to be 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
...time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities •which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply...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
...from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply...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
...from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply...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... | |
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