 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
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 849 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....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. You have, indeed, "winged ministers" of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 849 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....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. You have, indeed, "winged ministers" of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 340 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... | |
 | Henry Howard Roberts - 1923 - 190 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 469 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... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966
...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... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - 1986 - 524 páginas
...this principle was put to Parliament by Edmund Burke in a famous speech on the American problem: Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them....want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enought to defeat a whole system. . . . In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 328 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....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 702 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....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 525 páginas
...Heroides 15.83: "Studies go to form manners." 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... | |
| |
