| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...jesters and buffoons shame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. THE LABOURING POOR. THE vigorous and laborious class of life has lately got from the ban ton of the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...jesters and buffoons shame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. Without the principles of the jacobins, perhaps without any principles at all, they played the game... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...jesters and buffoons shame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten ringers. THE LABOURING POOR. THE vigorous and laborious class of life has lately got from the ban ion... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 442 pages
...and buffoons nharne them out of every thin;: grand and elevated. Uttleness in object and iu means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...which they can handle; which they can measure with a two-tout rule; which they can tell upon ten lingers. "NVithout the principles of the jacobins, perhaps... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...liberal views. In most of these his understanding had the post of honour ; it did not follow, but lead the public voice. He had, in fact, an unfeigned contempt...pursuit but that which they can handle ; which they can nieasure with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers." At no period did he assume the... | |
| sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...most of these questions his understanding may be said to have assumed the post of honour, — that is, it did not follow, but rather led the public voice....of his earlier writings, and a fair induction from his general arguments, will convince us that at no period did he assume the character of what is called... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...and in means t« rtiem appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit hut that which they can handle ; which they can measure...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. PRUDENCE. There is a courageous wisdom : there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...and buffoon« shame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. Without the principles nf the jacobins, perhaps without any principles at all, they played the gam«-... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...jesters and buffoons shame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...can measure with a two-foot rule ; which they can teU upon ten fingers.' " This is a subject which, if we may judge from Mr. Burke's frequent recurrence... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...jesters and buffoons ihame them out of every thing grand and elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think...can handle ; which they can measure with a two-foot rale ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. Without the principles of the jacobins, perhaps without... | |
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