 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...its abftract perfection, but its read fault) obtains no where, nor ought to obtain any where. Beeaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatiffa&ions in life, are deftnitive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in,... | |
 | John Wilde - France - 1793 - 688 pages
...abftract perfection, " but its real fault) obtains nowhere, nor ought " to obtain any where : Becaufe extremes, as we " all know, in every point which relates either to " our duties or fatisfa&ions in life, are deftructive " both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too" muft be limited... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...abftract perfection, but its real fault) obtains no where, ' nor . ought to obtain any where. Becaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatisfactions in life, are deitruttive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...its abftract perfection, but its real fault) obtains no where, nor ought to obtain any where. Becaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatisfactions in life, are deftructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in... | |
 | Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...»bftract perfection, but its real fault) obtains n6 where, nor ought to obtain any where. Becaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatisfactions in life, are deftruclive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...its abftract perfection, but its real fault) obtains no where, nor ought to obtain any where. Becaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatisfactions in life, are deftructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...a blessing and a benefit, not an abstract speculation ; and all the just reasoning that can be put upon it, is of so coarse a texture, as perfectly to...settle precisely. But it ought to be the constant aim pf every wise public council, to find out by cautious 174 experiments, and rational, cool endeavours,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...who are to defend it. Far from any resemblance to those propositions in geometry and metaphysicks, which admit no medium, but must be true or false in...relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life, arc destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...life, are variously mixed and moditicd, enjoyed in very different degrees, and shaped into an Hilimfi' , l degré« of restraint it is impassible ш any case to settle precisely. But it ought to be the constant... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...f'lri/ freedom, gentlemen, is not, as many have endeavoured to persuade you, a thing that lies hid in either to our duties or satisfactions in life, are...destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too tnusl be limited in order to be possessed. The degree of restraint it t'y impossible in any case to... | |
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Because extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life, are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed. The degree of restraint it is impossible... 
