 In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They...  British Eloquence - Page 218edited by - 1884Full view - About this book
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...defence, full of- refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the prelVuie of the grievance by the badnefs 'of the principle. They augur mifgovernmentat adiftance; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...defence, full of refourees. I n other countries, .the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftince;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple, and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, m mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. SUPERSTITION. BUT is superstition the greatest of all possible vices ? In its possible excess I think... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...lofty sentiments; — who " do not judge of an ill principle only by an actual grievance, " but who anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the " grievance by the badness of the principle; — who snuff the M approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." It could scarcely be credited that... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...sagacity of Burke : he assigns it as one of the causes of the revolution. " This study," says he, " renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...assigns it as ono of the causes of the revolution. "This study," says he, "render men acute, inqnisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government hy an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the hadness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny... | |
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