 But all this is merely mechanical, and what a couple of days' application would set to rights. I have seen what has been done by the West Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing, —...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Side 261af Edmund Burke - 1877Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edmund Burke - 1813 - 600 sider
...I need not observe to you, that the forms are often neglected, penalties not provided, &c. &c. &c. But all this is merely mechanical, and what a couple...diligence. It is easy enough to say what shall be done : T- to cause it to be done — Hie labor, hoc opus. I ought not to apologize for letting this scheme... | |
 | African Institution (London, England) - 1820 - 152 sider
...years have produced in most of our West-India islands. Well was it observed of them by Mr. Burke, " / have seen what has been done by the West- Indian Assemblies....it is totally destitute of an executory principle" From these considerations it is evident, that no punctual or permanent execution of the laws for registering... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1823 - 106 sider
...he, after the passing of the celebrated consolidated Slave Laws of Jamaica, and of other islands, " I have seen what has been done by the West Indian...it is totally destitute of an executory principle." Taking into consideration all the circumstances that accompanied and followed the enactment 40 of those... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1823 - 586 sider
...he, after the passing of the celebrated .consolidated Slave Laws of Jamaica, and of other islands, " I have seen what has been done by the West Indian...it is totally destitute of an executory principle." Taking into consideration all the circumstances that accompanied and followed ihe enactment 40 of those... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1823 - 92 sider
...consolidated Slave Laws of Jamaica, and of other islands, " I have seen what has been done by the West-Indian Assemblies. It is arrant trifling; — they have done...it is totally destitute of an executory principle." Taking into consideration all the. circumstances that accompanied and followed the enactment of those... | |
 | James Stephen - 1824 - 568 sider
...meliorating laws in general. No part of them can more plainly illustrate the stricture of Mr. Burke — " It is arrant trifling ; they have done little ,• and what they have done is good for nothing. It is totally destitute of an executory priuciple." I do not regard such provisions, then, as forming... | |
 | James Stephen - 1824 - 570 sider
...general. No part of them can more plainly illustrate the stricture of Mr. Burke — " It is atrant trifling ; they have done little ; and what they have done is good for nothing. It is totally destitute of an executory principle" I do not regard such provisions, then, as forming... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 272 sider
...add what Mr. Burke said about the same period : ' I have seen what has been done by the West-India Assemblies. It is arrant trifling. They have done...it is totally destitute of an executory principle.' — Letter to Mr. Dundas (1792) on the Slave Codes. VIII.— page 76. I now take leave to call what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 620 sider
...I need not observe to you, that the forms are oftee neglected, penalties not provided, &c. &c. &c. But all this is merely mechanical, and what a couple...shall be done : — to cause it to be done — Hie tabor, hoe opus. I ought not to apologize for letting this scheme lie beyond the period of the Horotion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 638 sider
...observe to you, that the forms are often neglected, penalties not provided, &c. &c. &c. But all uiis is merely mechanical, and what a couple of days' application...whole diligence. It is easy enough to say what shall bo done : — to cause it to be done — Sic labor, hoe ория. I ought not to apologize for letting... | |
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