 ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to...  Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions - Page 82by Edmund Burke - 1862 - 456 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I refleft upon thefe effeCts, when I f:e how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I reflect upon thefe eflects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all' prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, ancf die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...has been-fuffered to take her own way to perfection: when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...nature has been lufiered to take her own way to perfection : when I refka upon thefe effefts, when 1 fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Biography - 1800 - 702 pages
...lullVred to take her own way to perfection : when I refieft upon thefe effefls, when I fee how p-o6tab!e they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all rn-fcription in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon fomething to the fpirit of liberty. I am fenilble, Sir, that all which I have aflerted, in my detail,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...profitable they have been to us, feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefump tion in the wifdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents, pardon fomething to the fpirit of liberty. I am fenfible, Sir, that all which I have afierted in my... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted, in my detail, is admitted in the gross; but that... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to lake herown way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects,...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. MR. BUHKE'S SPEECH AT BRISTOL, ON DECLINING... | |
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