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
| D. W. Meinig - 1986 - 532 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 - 412 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 - 720 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 - 540 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... | |
| Joseph Story - 2005 - 1408 páginas
...the restrictions necessarily arising from their dependency on Great Britain, were sovereign within the effect of this distance, in weakening government....to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your holts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 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... | |
| Duncan Bell - 2009 - 336 páginas
...embedded so deeply "in the natural constitution of things." Three thousand miles of ocean lie between us and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of...a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. . . . Who are you, that should fret and rage, and bite the chains of Nature? — Nothing worse happens... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 páginas
...merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean Mo between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the...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... | |
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