 This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance....  Alexander Hamilton - Page 44by William Graham Sumner - 1890 - 281 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...They augur mis-government at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. * The Attorney General. VOL. n. . F The last cause... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious; Jlbeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio. in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. from the Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. THE... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...lofty sentiments; — who " do not judge of an ill principle only by an actual grievance, " but who anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the " grievance by the badness of the principle; — who snuff the M approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." It could scarcely be credited that... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuft the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. [496 The last cause of this disobedient spirit... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate the...they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."* The statesmen who appeared at the dawn of the revolution... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the hadness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny... | |
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