 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Books and reading - 1919 - 432 pages
...representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought ; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura...cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation." Canning repeated the quotation in his speech on the Roman Catholic Disability Removal Bill (March 16,... | |
 | Sir George Norman Clark - Communication and traffic - 1920 - 128 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought ; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura...cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation." To all intents and purposes this barrier has been removed ; it was not eternal. On the face of it,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1920 - 118 pages
...representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought ; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura, — I cannot 20 remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing, in that mode, I do not know to be possible.... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought, but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura....cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing in that mode I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 880 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought, but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura....cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing in that mode I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely... | |
 | John Saxon Mills - Communication and traffic - 1924 - 340 pages
...of the British plantations, " I might be inclined to entertain some Introductory such thought ; but a great flood stops me in my course, Opposuit Natura. I cannot remove the eternal barriers of creation." Alluding to a supporter of the same notion, he exclaimed, " It costs him nothing to fight... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura...cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing, in that mode, I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely... | |
 | English literature - 1916 - 436 pages
...in 1775, found it impossible. ' Perhaps I might be ' inclined to entertain some such thought ; but a great flood ' stops me in my course. Opposuit natura...cannot remove ' the eternal barriers of the creation.' The eternal barriers have been removed, or at least so reduced that they are no longer formidable ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit Natura....cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing, in that mode, I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I do not absolutely... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...representation of the colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought, but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura....cannot remove the eternal barriers of the creation. The thing in that mode I do not know to be possible. As I meddle with no theory, I .do not absolutely... | |
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I am on the point of proposing to you a scheme for a representation of the Colonies in Parliament. Perhaps I might be inclined to entertain some such thought; but a great flood stops me in my course. Opposuit natura — I cannot remove the eternal barriers... 
