 If you do not succeed, you are without resource, 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 begged as alms by an...  Notes - Page 175by Thucydides - 1881Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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 recover ; but depreciated, funk* wafted, and confumed in the conteft. Nothing lefs will content me, than whole America. I do not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the...depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest." His remark on the state of society in the Southern Provinces of America, unquestionably true as it... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...impairthe object by your very endeavors lo preserve it. The thing you fought for, is not the tiling which you recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. No lung less will cement me than whole America. I do not choose lo coi sume its strength along with... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the...depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest." His remark on the state of society in the Southern Provinces of America, unquestionably true as it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the...in the contest. Nothing less will content me, than u-hole America. I do not cliooseto consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your тегу endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing wLich you recover ; but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 592 pages
...bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms, by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavors to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover; but depreciated,... | |
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