 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 400 pages
...to imagine, that mankind fo\\ow up practically any speculative principle, either of go-veriM»<?/?/ or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and...logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the f>TincJpJes upon which we support any given part of our Constitution; or even the whole of it together.... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 410 pages
...besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative prin15 ciple, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will...it together. I could easily, if I had not already 20 tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it. This is nothing but what is natural... | |
 | Edmund Burke - United States - 1894 - 126 pages
...besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative prin15 ciple, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will...it together. I could easily, if I had not already 20 tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it. This is nothing but what is natural... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 pages
...we find a significant warning, surely not nnneeded in our own day, against the mistake of imagining that mankind follow up practically any speculative...freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical inference. One of the marks of the English character is still its capacity for compromise. There are... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 398 pages
...besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative prin15 ciple, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. Wo Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1894 - 120 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. . It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative prin15 ciple, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 408 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative prin15 ciple, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - English language - 1895 - 390 pages
...long paragraph, pp. 221-223. Near the beginning of the paragraph, at the top of p. 222, we read : " It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that...far as it will go in argument and logical illation." Compare this with p. 223 : " Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest ; and not on metaphysical... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct, or their expressions, in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is besides a very great mistake to imagine, that...or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and 15 logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 370 pages
...we find a significant warning, surely not unneeded in our own day, against the mistake of imagining that mankind follow up practically any speculative...freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical inference. One of the marks of the English character is still its capacity for compromise. There are... | |
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It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon... 
