| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...prosecute that spirit as criminal ; 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. 2. My idea, therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 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 a whole people.15 I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...said to come from one of L)rytlen's plays. — PAYNK. 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 Rawleigh) at the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the 25 method of drawing up an indictment against a whole...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1892 - 294 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...Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the bar. I hope I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies,... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 392 pages
...looks to me 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.' In the latter part of the speech he insists on the necessity of just legislation for ending discontent,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 pages
...that " when a whole people are concerned, acts of lenity are not means of conciliation .... he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Burke's speech on " American taxation " was delivered to a House that was not worthy, on 19th April,... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 392 pages
...PAGE 135, 31 ff. An expansion of his own famous utterance in the Speech on Conciliation (p. 32) : " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." PAGE 136, 30. help it, not in the sense now common, of prevent it. It is worth while to notice how... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...have cared to deny that the wisdom of his age yielded to that of his confident youth when he said " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Until the end of time there can be no other last word in defence of Revolution. How much of the artist... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 408 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 a whole 25 people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures as Sir Edward... | |
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