 | Michael Curtis - History - 2002 - 460 pages
...disregarding normal restraints and customary forms of civilised conduct? Edmund Burke was right when he wrote: 'I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.' The record of the French people is mixed: mercenary, subservient, heroic, cautious, opportunistic,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual [Sir Walter Raleigh] at the... | |
 | Mark A. Weitz - Capture at sea - 2005 - 240 pages
...several communities which compose a great empire." Burke conceded that as to the American colonists, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Furthermore, "I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures." Harrison... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creaturss ... I... | |
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... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 
