 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 106 páginas
...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...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures as Sir Edward Coke l insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1896 - 256 páginas
...to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole 5 people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings...fellow-creatures, as 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... | |
 | 1909 - 512 páginas
...Expenditure for naval armaments is everywhere growing by leaps and bounds. Edmund Burke said that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people; but perhaps it may be easier to detect some of the signs of emotional insanity than to draw an indictment... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...though they could "prosecute that spirit [of American independence] as criminal" and Burke replies: "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." Conciliation, far from disrupting the empire, was the only way of preserving it. "Such is steadfastly... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - 1988 - 790 páginas
...exercise their own judgment. (Incidentally, Burke would have favoured State immunity, since he did not "know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people".) That and other considerations derived from ITA 6 persuade me that there is a good deal to be said for... | |
 | Robert Lloyd Kelley - 1990 - 492 páginas
...argued that the colonists were committing a criminal act in being rebellious, he made the famous reply, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." And when others began by tortuous legal argument to prove that Britain was right in what she was doing,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 páginas
...of teaching, and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service. — James A. Perkins I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. — Edmund Burke God must have loved the common people because he made so many of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...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 an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of Millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 páginas
...some other law passed in its shadow, so be it; there is nothing to be done about it. Burke asserted, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people ... I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
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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. 
