 There are many things in reformation which would be proper to be done, if other things can be done along with them, but which, if they cannot be so accompanied, ought not to be done at all. I therefore wish, when any new matter of this deep nature is...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 320by Edmund Burke - 1818Full view - About this book
 | John Almon - Great Britain - 1797 - 394 pages
...propofed to me., to have the whole fcheme diftinctly in my view, and full time to confider of it. Pleafe God I will walk with caution whenever I am not able clearly to fee my way before me. " I am now growing old ; I have from my very early youth been converfant in reading... | |
 | 1798 - 488 pages
...propoicd to me, to have the whole (eherne directly in my view, and full time to confidei of it. Pleafe God, I will walk with caution, whenever I am not able clearly to lee my way before me. I am now growing old : I have from my very early youth been converlant in reading... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...the most experienced and able men, were against the change — "Please God," added he emphatically, " I will walk with caution, whenever I am not able clearly to see my way before me." About this time, a few petitions to repeal the indulgences granted to the Catholics two years before,... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...things advantageous to liberty or good government." — In another part of this letter he adds — " Please God I will walk with caution, whenever I am not able clearly to see my way before me." On the 8th May, he spoke still more decidedly against the question, on Alderman Sawbridge's annual... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...other things can he done along with them; hut which, if they cannot he so accompanied, ought not to ho done at all. I therefore wish, when any new matter...Please God, I will walk with caution, whenever I am not ahle clearly to see my way hefore me. I am now growing old. I have from my ver? early youth heen conversant... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...things advantageous to liberty or good government." — In another part of this letter he adds — " Please God I will walk with caution, whenever I am not able clearly to see my way before me." On the 8th of May, he spoke still more decidedly against the question, on Alderman Sawbridge's annual... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pages
...wisdom and talent were against its being advantageous to good government. " Please God," he added, "I will walk with caution whenever i am not able clearly to see my way before me." On the 8th of May, he spoke still more decidedly against the question, on Alderman Sawbridge's annual... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...not to be done at all. I therefore wiah, when any new matter of this deep nature if proposed to mo, to have the whole scheme distinctly in my view, and...way before me. I am now growing old . I have from mv very early youth been conversant in reading and thinking upon the subject of our laws and constitution,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 1022 pages
...cannot be so accompanied, ought not to be done at all. I therefore wish, when any new matter of tin's deep nature is proposed to me, to have the whole scheme...whenever I am not able clearly to see my way before mo1 am uow growing old. I have from my very early youth been conversant in reading and thinking upon... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...reflecting man.' 2 ' Please God,' he said on another occasion, when describing his own procedure, ' I will walk with caution, whenever I am not able clearly to see my way before me.' 1 ' It may be allowed,' so runs still another dictum, ' to the temperament of the statesman to catch... | |
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