You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have... Political Essays - Page 2by Charles Bradlaugh - 1887Full view - About this book
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...exit, to the scenes which it is more than probable many of bis compatriots may live to bemoan.".. " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found ; nor if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is nongovernment.... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...darkness, as not to see rays of a distant sun through all this mist .of intoxication and folly. *' You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. 1 know not where that influence is to be found, nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy... | |
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...enveloped in darkness, as not to see rays of a distant sun through all this mist of intoxication and folly. "You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachussetts. I know not where that influence is to be found ; nor if attainable, that it would be... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...an exit, to the scenes which it is more than probable many of his compatriots may live to bemoan. " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, nor if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government.... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...an exit, to the scenes which it is more than probable many of his compatriots may live to bemoan. " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease...Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is ta be found, nor if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is... | |
| David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 pages
...influence is to be found, nor, if attainable, that it -would be a proper remedy for these .disopders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties, wilLbe secured, or let -tis know the worst at once. Under these impressions, my humble opinion is,... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1835 - 472 pages
...where that influence is to be found, nor, il attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not Government. Let us have...government by which our lives, liberties and properties, ] vill be secured, or let us know the worst at once." On ' the Mine side, then and ever after, was... | |
| Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...worthy of his genius and his fame. "You talk, my good Sir," he writes in his answer to Colonel Lee, "of employing influence to appease the present tumults...Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found; nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government.... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...of intoxication and folly. " You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the pre sent tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found ; nor if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. Influence is not government.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...asked to use his great personal influence to stay the mad proceedings of the rebels. He replied : " You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease...Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found ; nor, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for these disorders. " Influence is not government.... | |
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