 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...dependencies. They never had any kind of system, right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of...difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted. And they were put to all these shifts and devices, full of meanness and full of mischief, in order... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...had never acted on any kind of system, right or wrong, but had had recourse to shifts and devices, in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they had proudly strutted : nor did they possess the generous courage, when they found and felt their error, honorably and fairly... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...dependencies: they never had any system, right or wrong; but only occasionally invented some miserable tale of the day; in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted/ Burke himself, on the contrary, took the whole of a subject, and all its parts and dependencies, into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...dependencies. They never had any kind of system, right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of...difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted. And they were put to ail these shifts and devices, full of meanness and full of mischief, in order... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...dependencies. They never had any kind of system, right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of...difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted. And they were put to all these shifts and devices, full of meanness and full of mischief, in order... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...dependencies. They never had any kind of system, right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of...difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted. And they were put to all these shifts and devices, full of meanness and full of mischief, in order... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...they never had any system, right or wrong, but " only occasionally invented some miserable tale of the day, " in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they " had proudly strutted." Ministers opposed the motion, because a repeal at such a time would show fluctuation and inconsistency,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 568 pages
...they never had any system, right or wrong, but " only occasionally invented some miierable tale of the day, " in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they " had proudly strutted." Ministers opposed the motion, because a repeal at such a time would show fluctuation and inconsistency,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1820 - 502 pages
...: they never had any system, right or wrong, but only occasionally invented some miserable tale of the day, in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they had proudly strutted." Ministers opposed the motion, because a repeal at such a time would shew fluctuation and inconsistency,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...dependencies. They never had any kind of system, right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable , and look And they were put to all these shifts and devices, full of meanness and full of mischief, in order... | |
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They never had any kind of system, right or wrong; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day, in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties, into which they had proudly strutted. 
