...danger of coercing the thirteen colonies : — " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...government. Seas roll, and months pass between the order and execution, and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system....

...passed by the Assemblies. 6 " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them," said Mr. Burke. " No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government." Adam Smith observed: — "Their situation has placed them less in the view and less in the power of...

...deep in the natural const itution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat an whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces...

...weakening government, which no contrivance can prevent. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order aal the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation...single point is enough to defeat a whole system." This, said Burke, was a weakness inherent in all great and widely-extended EmpiiH: the Turk could not...

...constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can pro vent the effect of this distance in weakening government....explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. You have, indeed, " winged ministers" of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their...

...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance,...single point is enough to defeat a whole system." He said in another part of the same speech : " But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got...

...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. of God, which declare throughout, "God is no respecter...children being not yet born, neither having done any the whole system. You have, indeed, "winged ministers " of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their...

...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. he reign of King Heury VIII., entitled, An Act for the trial of treasons commit Sens roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation...

...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry youi bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea. But there a power steps in, that limits...

...deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance...a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. Tou have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts to the remotest verge of the...