 Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Página 228por Edmund Burke - 1835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1911
...constitution of things." Three thousand miles of ocean separated the mothercountry from her colonies. "No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. . . . From all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1913
...one serious hindrance to his undertaking. ' Seas roll and months pass,' said Burke magniloquently,2 ' between the order and the execution ; and the want...single point is enough to defeat a whole system.' Letters took any time between six months and a year to reach India, and, though military operations... | |
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - 1914 - 366 páginas
...than the rest, as it is not merely moral but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them....single point is enough to defeat a whole system." — Burke. 7. "Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1915 - 141 páginas
...than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them....to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916
...than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them....to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But... | |
 | Authur Huntington Nason - 1917 - 517 páginas
...than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them....to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - 1917
...authority. As Burke said of the effect of the Atlantic on the government of the colonists of Great Britain, "Seas roll and months pass between the order and the...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 87 páginas
...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. 10 No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of 15 vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 119 páginas
...between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government.104 Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and...to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces105 to the remotest verge of the sea.... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1920 - 708 páginas
...As Burke said of the effect of the Atlantic on the government of the colonists of Great Britain, " Seas roll and months pass between the order and the...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. ... In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities."... | |
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