 I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which, in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags...  Oral Composition: A Text Book for High Schools - Page 236by Cornelia Carhart Ward - 1914 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...Pennsylvania was £507,909, nearly equal to the export to all the colonies together in the first period. I choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...other cafes are apt to heighten and raife the fubject, have here a tendency to fink it. When we fpeak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the objecT: in the view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...to do it long with impunity. —Ibid. AM'ERICA. Commerce with our American Colonies. WHEN we fpeak. of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after...is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.— —Ibid.' IMPORTS FROM AMERICA. IF I were to detail the imports, I could fhew how many enjoyments they... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...Pennsylvania was 507,9097. nearly equal to the export to all the colonies together in the first period. I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as to the importance of the object in the view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...Pennsylvania was 507,909/. nearly equal to the export to all the colonies together in the first period. I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular...commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth j invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as to the importance of the... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...Pennsylvania was 507,909/. nearly equal to the export of all the colonies together in the first period. I choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which m all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...details; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to Lighten and raise the subject, uave here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fic'ion lags *fter truth; invention is unfruitful; and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...hog's head. fau'kes. CCCLXVII. Some falls are the means the happier to rise. Shakspeare. CCCLXVIII. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction...unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Burke. CCCLXIX. That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do (which is the case of all... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...breathing dread, Fmakes. CCCLXVII. Some falls are the means the happier to rise. Hhakspeare. CCCLXVIII. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.—Burke. CCCLXIX. That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do (which is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...Pennsylvania was 507,909/. nearly equal to the export to all the colonies together in the first period. I choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object in the view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports... | |
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