 Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a state, that does not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert and timid, it never can be safe from the invasions...  The Social Gospel - Page 244by R. J. Michael - 1867 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...prosperity, may be strong enough to complete your ruin. Spoliatis arma supersunt. NATIONAL REPRESENTATION. NOTHING is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert and timid, it... | |
 | John Bristed - Debts, Public - 1811 - 554 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried, but by some difficulty and some struggle. " Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it... | |
 | John Bristed - Debts, Public - 1811 - 556 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried, but by some difficulty and some struggle. "Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty, and some struggle. Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability, as well as its property^ But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...prosperity, may be strong enough to complete your ruin. Spoliatis arma supersunt. NATIONAL REPRESENTATION. NOTHING is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, and timid, it... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert, aud timid, it... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. Nothing i ahility, as well as its property. But as ahility is a vigorous and active principle, and as property... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some. struggle. -—- Nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability, as well as its property. But as ability is a vigorous and active principle, and as property is sluggish, inert and timid, it... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...relation equally to the affairs of the public and their own. Hence Burke has laid it down as a rule, that nothing is a due and adequate representation of a...not represent its ability as well as its property. But we are inclined to think that he errs in divaricating between them so largely as he does. Ability,... | |
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