 ... there were no tribunals at all. In my humble opinion, it would be better a thousand times to give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassador, representing certain grievances suffered by the British merchants, —...  The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke - Page 343by Edmund Burke - 2008 - 512 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 558 pages
...know, that my suhjects are a hand of rohhers, and that I am their captain ?" — hetter it would he a thousand times, and a thousand thousand times more...pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and ohservances of law, ahandons mankind, without help and resource, to all the desolating consequences... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 562 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe) "do not you know, that my subjects are a band of robbers,...law, abandons mankind, without help and resource, to alt the desolating consequences of arhitrary power. The conduct and event of this cause will put an... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe) " do not you know, that my subjects are a band of robbers,...times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe) " do not you know, that my subjects are a band of robbers,...times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances... | |
 | 1845 - 554 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe) " do not you know, that my subjects are a band of robbers, and that I am their cnptain?" —better it would be a thousand times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a... | |
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants,—" My friend," (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe) " do not you know, that my subjects are a band of robbers,...times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 528 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — "My friend" (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe), " do not you know that my subjects are a band of robbers,...times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances... | |
 | Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - 1857 - 522 pages
...grievances suffered by the British merchants, — "My friend" (as the story is related by Dr. Shawe), " do not you know that my subjects are a band of robbers,...times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than a hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances... | |
 | Warren Hastings - 1859 - 816 pages
...a British ambassador, representing the rest of the British merchants, — " My friend," says he, as related by Dr. Shaw, " do not you know that my subjects...of robbers, and that I am their captain ?"* Better far it would be — a thousand times more manly — than an hypocritical process which, under a pretended... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 556 pages
...know, that my suhjects are a hand of rohhers, and that I am their captain ?"— hetter it would he ohservances of law, ahandons mankind, without help and resource, to all the desolating consequences... | |
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