 | Todd Breyfogle - Education - 1999 - 420 pages
...(which is its abstract pcrfection, but its real fault) obtains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere; because extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or sansfacnons in life, are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty, too, must be limited in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...who are to defend it. Far from any resemblance to those propositions in geometry and metaphysicks, which admit no medium, but must be true or false in...But it ought to be the constant aim of every wise publick counsel, to find out by cautious experiments, and rational, cool endeavours, with how little,... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 226 pages
...liberty . . . obtains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere; because extremes, as we all know . . . are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed."65 A few years earlier Burke and Priestley had briefly been political allies insofar as... | |
 | Marcella Ridlen Ray - Social Science - 292 pages
...deciding the suit, but by compromising the difference that peace can be restored or kept." "[EJxtremes, as we all know. in every point which relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life." Burke said, "are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment."25 At one point. Burke elaborated on the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...(which is its abstract perfection, but its real fault} contains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere; because extremes, as we all know, in every point which...and enjoyment. Liberty too, must be limited in order co be possessed. The degree of restraint it is impossible in any case to settle precisely. But it ought... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...(which is its abstract perfection, but its real fault) obtains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere ; because extremes, as we all know, in every point which...ought to be the constant aim of every wise public counsel to find out by cautious experiments, and rational, cool endeavors, with how little, not how... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...(which is its abstract perfection, but its real fault) obtains nowhere, nor ought to obtain anywhere ; because extremes, as we all know, in every point which...ought to be the constant aim of every wise public counsel to find out by cautious experiments, and rational, cool endeavors, with how little, not how... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...its abftract perfection, but its real fault) obtains no where, nor ought to obtain any where. Becaufe extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or fatisfactions in life, are deftru&ive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too muft be limited in... | |
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Because extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life, are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed. The degree of restraint it is impossible... 
