 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so ; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1884 - 382 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so ; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence." The whole of our Colonial policy, for more than a generation,... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 340 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so ; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 360 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so ; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so. But we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...methods altogether different Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault It may be so; but we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it, and our sin more salutary than our penitence. . . . But there is still behind a third consideration, concerning... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so. But we know if feeling is evidence, that our fault was more tolerable than our 20 attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, Sir, are my reasons... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1892 - 294 pages
...altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so. But we know, if feeling is evidence, that our fault...more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may be so. But we know, if 15 feeling is evidence, that our fault was more tolerable than our attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence. These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high... | |
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Lastly, we have no sort of experience in favor of force as an instrument in the rule of our colonies. Their growth and their utility has been owing to methods altogether different. Our ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault. It may... 
