 On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 99by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...terrors, and by the concern which each individual may fmd in them from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests.... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - 656 pages
...scheme of planting funeral vistas and melancholy shades, thought of his old master's memorable sentence: 'In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows!' — A good hint to French vistafanciers." [Jan. 1st, 1802.] " Mr. MONK LEWIS was so much hurt by his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 472 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing HC H—Vol. 24 but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, 274 275 you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the... | |
 | Elliot Evans Mills - Church and state - 1909 - 420 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which it as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...laws are to be supported only by their own terrors. . Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the Commonwealth. On the principle of... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid `) >/x/@/A/B/C/ liis own private interests. In the groves of their academy,* at the end of every vista, you see nothing... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...homicide philanthropy ' of the revolutionists, ' in the groves of whose Academy,' as he savagely said, ' at the end of every vista you see nothing but the gallows,' there were conspicuous figures before his eyes, in whom the cosmopolitan confession of faith was suspect... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1916 - 1216 pages
...understandings," exclaimed the great English liberal, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrours. ... In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows." 3 Burke's extravagant rhetoric, although reprinted in America, was little heeded. It would have been... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Judges - 1916 - 664 pages
...understandings," exclaimed the great English liberal, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrours. ... In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows." 8 Burke's extravagant rhetoric, although reprinted in America, was little heeded. It would have been... | |
 | sherlock bronson gass - 1919 - 332 pages
...Burke's Reflections anticipating a time when 'laws were to be supported only by their own terrors and in the concern which each individual may find in them...speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interest.' He looked up suddenly, startled by the similarity of these old words to his own. Then with... | |
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