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" 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, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than... "
Two Speeches on Conciliation with America: And Two Letters on Irish Questions - Page 119
by Edmund Burke - 1892 - 284 pages
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5

1775 - 868 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33

England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you...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...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you...Nothing less will content me, than whole America. I did not choose to consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it is the British...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...y»m recover; but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. No.hir.g less will coment me than whole America I do not choose to consume its...with our own, because in all parts it is the British sirergth that I consume. I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consum ed in ihe contest. No hing less will content me than whole America. 1 do not choose to consume its strength along with our own, because in a! parís ¡t is the British strength that I consume. '. do not cl:oose to be caught by k foreign enemy...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33

Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you...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...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you...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...
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