 ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 119by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...state, that no man should approach to 30 look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and 5 put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations,... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion ; that he should approach to tbc faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - France - 1904 - 616 pages
...the State, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution, that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent to pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...State, " that no man should approach to look into its defects " or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should " never dream of beginning its reformation...country who are prompt rashly to " hack that aged parent to pieces and put him into " the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their " poisonous weeds and... | |
 | Irwin Edman - Social psychology - 1919 - 480 pages
...the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions, but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.16 Uncritical Disparagement The other extreme is represented by the position that old things... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1919 - 110 pages
...with Burke that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...approach to the faults of the State as to the wounds of a father—with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice, we are taught to look with... | |
 | Irwin Edman - Social psychology - 1920 - 488 pages
...the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions, but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with piou? awe and trembling solicitude. 1 Personal or class opposition to change. Sincere fear of the possible... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...society. It is "wise Prejudice," he avowed, to venerate and to demonstrate loyalty to the nation; one should "approach to the faults of the state as to...the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude."22 Society is indeed a contract [he wrote in one of the most famous and eloquent passages... | |
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