 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1792 - 418 pages
...indeed, in our political arithmetic! In this calculating age, we,afcertain to a fcruple what an object is really worth. Thus it feems that Oczakow was worth....argument fuch as this. To hold out a menace, without ever fe^ rioufly meaning to enforce it, conftitutes, in common Janguage, the true defcription of a bully;... | |
 | Parliament proc - 1792 - 420 pages
...age, we afcertain to a fcruple what an object is really worth. Thus it feems that Oczakow was worth aa armament, but not worth a war : it was worth a threat,...execution. Sir, I can conceive nothing fo degrading and dishonourable, as an argument fuch as this. To hold out a menacej without ever ferioufly meaning to... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...! In this calculating age, we ascertain to a scruple what an object is really worth. Thus it seems that Oczakow was worth an armament, but not worth...threat into execution. Sir, I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable, as such an argument. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously meaning... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...! In this calculating age, we ascertain to a scruple what an object is really worth. Thus-it seems that Oczakow was worth an armament, but not worth...threat into execution. Sir, I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable, as such an argument. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously meaning... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 620 pages
...In this calculating age, we ascertain to a Scruple what an object is really worth. Thus, it seems, that Oczakow was worth an armament, but not worth...threat into execution. Sir, I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable, as an argument such as this. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 400 pages
...have stated it, they ought to be censured for disarming without having gained it. ... Thus it seems Oczakow was worth an armament, but not worth a war;...threat into execution. Sir, I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable as an argument such as this. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...arithmetic. In this calculating age we ascertain to a scruple what an object is really worth. Thus it seems that Oczakow was worth an armament, but not worth...threat into execution ! Sir, I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable as such an argument. To hold out a menace without ever seriously meaning... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...arithmetic. In this calculating age we ascertain to a scruple what an object is really worth. Thus it seems ut it is that popularity which follows, not that which...sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the so degrading and dishonourable as such an argument. To hold out a menace without ever seriously meaning... | |
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I can conceive nothing so degrading and dishonourable, as an argument such as this. To hold out a menace, without ever seriously meaning to enforce it, constitutes, in common language, the true description of a bully; applied to the transactions of a... 