| Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...Providence has decreed vexation to violence and poverty to rapine.' . . . ' It is a great mistake to suppose that mankind follow up practically any speculative...far as it will go in argument and logical illation. All government, indeed every human benefit, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 pages
...expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that 5 mankind follow up practically any speculative principle,...principles upon which we support any given part of our Con10 stitution, or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you,... | |
| English Orators - 1899 - 616 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...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the... | |
| Edmund Burke - United States - 1899 - 178 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 5 practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 464 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...our Constitution, or even the whole of it together. VI could easily, if I had not already tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 500 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...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the... | |
| Orators - 1900 - 496 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...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 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...up practically any speculative principle, either of 2075 government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 136 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 25 any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument... | |
| David Hutchison MacGregor - Historians - 1901 - 152 pages
...said for both sides, who can hit hard rather than reason profoundly. " We Englishmen," as Burke says, "stop very short of the principles upon which we support...constitution ; or even the whole of it together... This is nothing but what is natural and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,... | |
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