 Government influence ; that the business of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had been still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas, to confirm inveterate prejudices, to inflame vulgar passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 223by Edmund Burke - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...government iniiiience : — that the husiness of a minister, or of those who acted as such, had heen still further to contract the narrowness of men's...inveterate prejudices; to inflame vulgar passions, and to ahet all sorts of popular ahsurdities, in order the hetter to destroy popular rights and privileges... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...instructed and partially informed, could behold only in an insulated and unconnected manner : — butthat x election. 5. SPEECH on a bill for shortening the...of the Representation in Parliament. 7 SPEECH on butter to destroy popular rights and privileges :— that so far from methodizing the busiuess of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...so situated, as to have a large range of prospect, and as it were a bird's eye view of every thing, they might see distant dangers, and distant advantages,...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities, in 410 411 order the better to destroy popular rights and privileges : — that so far from methodizing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Conservatism - 1855 - 564 pages
...we suffered under all the evils, without any one of the advantages of a government influence:—that the business of a minister, or of those who acted...in order the better to destroy popular rights and privileges:—that so far from methodizing the business of the House, they had let all things run into... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Ireland - 1881 - 464 pages
...bringing imperfect and indigested projects into the House before means were used to quiet the clamours which a misconception of what we were doing might...destroy popular rights and privileges; that, so far from methodising the business of the House, they had let all things run into an inextricable confusion,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881 - 1120 pages
...the matter, when he complains of Parliament as being a place where it is ' the business of a Minister still further to contract the narrowness of men's...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities.' The true explanation of any matter is therefore seldom come at by us, but we rest in that account of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Copyright - 1882 - 344 pages
...do not incur that severe condemnation which Burke passes upon ministers who make it their business ' still further to contract the narrowness of men's...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities.' No, not by any means do they deserve this formidable blame. But when Burke writes to the Duke of Richmond... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 540 pages
...not incur that severe condemnation which Burke passes upon ministers who- make it their business " still further to contract the narrowness of men's...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities." No, not by any means do they deserve this formidable blame. But when Burke writes to the Duke of Richmond... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 534 pages
...do not incur that severe condemnation which Burke passes upon ministers who make it their business " still further to contract the narrowness of men's...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities." No, not by any means do they deserve this formidable blame. But when Burke writes to the Duke of Richmond... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1901 - 532 pages
...the matter, when he complains of Parliament as being a place where it is " the business of a Minister still further to contract the narrowness of men's...passions, and to abet all sorts of popular absurdities." The true explanation of any matter is therefore seldom come at by us, but we rest in that account of... | |
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