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" Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle ; which they can measure with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. "
Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 ... - Page 493
by Edmund Burke - 1826 - 518 pages
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

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...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8

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...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

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...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

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...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

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...
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“The” Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2

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«-...
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History of the revolution in England in 1688, comprising a view of ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 2

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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