 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
 | Edward Harlan Webster - 1920 - 334 páginas
...merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean he between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the...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 pounces... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1920 - 136 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 - 740 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."... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 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 - 876 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 - 360 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 - 210 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 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 - 552 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 - 432 páginas
...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... | |
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