 Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.  Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical - Pagina 53door Edmond Burke - 1815Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1863 - 990 pagina’s
...the necessity for subduing again ; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. ... A further objection to force is, that you impair the object Inj your very endeavours to preserve... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pagina’s
...and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an...conciliation failing, force remains ; but force failing, no hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pagina’s
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
...nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered, My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 pagina’s
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. '(2.) My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victor}'. If you do not succeed, you are without resource ; for, conciliation failing, force remains... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pagina’s
...a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. My next object is its uncertainty: terror is not always the effect of force ; and an...conciliation failing, force remains ; but force failing, no farther hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pagina’s
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 2. My next objection is its uncertainty. chrane begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. 3. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pagina’s
...nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. 2. My next objection is its uncertainly. , because it has been oftentimes said, that the period...adapted to mu«h study. At your enviable age everything begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. 3. A further objection to force is, that you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pagina’s
...nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. ** My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force; and an armament...sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence. ... ' A further objection to force is, that... | |
 | 1881 - 504 pagina’s
...context, or to the history of the times : (i) " I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." (ii) " For, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force...failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left." (iii) " It is sometimes as hard to persuade slaves to be free, as it is to compel freemen to be slaves... | |
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