 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. — A fire not to be quenched ; it demands a uniform...bursting into a flame, lest, [instead of warming, it should]63 consume. — It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of wanning, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country,... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A. fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with us admmistration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres; avoiding, in... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free coimtry, should inspire ( caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...to be by force of publick opinionjto mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame,...themselves within their respective constitutional spheres. •voiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 330 pages
...mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands an uniform vigilance to prevent its burning into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...administration, to confine themselves within their respective 2 constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 338 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...it should consume. It is important, likewise, that tn"e habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration,... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bunting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 420 pages
...constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform...lest instead of warming it should consume." It is a hopeful and healthy indication, now in its incipient stage of development, among the people of the... | |
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From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be... 
