 | English literature - 1812 - 540 pages
...in cold and decent respect. I hold them to be of an absolute necessity in the .constitution, but 1 think they are only good when kept within their proper...been a dispute between these houses, the part I have faken has not been equivocal. If by the aristocracy, which indeed comes nearer to the point, they mean... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1813 - 600 pages
...of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, ner any vulgar antipathy towards them ; I hold their order...which indeed comes nearer to the point, they mean an adlrerence to the rich and powerful against the poor and weak, this would indeed be a very extraordinary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...my ambition ; this hurts' me. It is said, the marriage act is aristocratic. I am accused, I am tofd abroad, of being a man of aristocratic principles....nearer to the point, they mean an adherence to the v. rich and powerful against the poor and weak, this would indeed be a very extraordinary part. I have... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, nor vulgar antipathy towards them ; I hold their order...are only good when kept within their proper bounds " If by the aristocracy, which indeed comes nearer to the point, they mean an adherence to the rich... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...; I hold their order in cold and decent respect. / hold them to be of an absolute necessity in Ihe constitution ; but I •think they are only good when kept within their proper bounds.' And the work in-which he may be said to have first made the profession of his political faith, his... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, nor vulgar antipathy towards them ; I hold their order...are only good when kept within their proper bounds " If by the aristocracy, which indeed comes nearer to the point, they mean an adherence to the rich... | |
 | United States - 1854 - 572 pages
...aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration or vulgar antipathy towards them. I hold thejr order in cold and decent respect. I hold them to be...Constitution, but I think they are only good when they are kept within proper bounds." On the other hand he remarks, "when indeed the smallest rights... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...aristocratic. I am accused, I am told abroad, of being a man of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, nor any vulgar...has been a dispute between these houses, the part 1 have taken has not been equivocal. If by the aristocracy, which indeed comes nearer to the point,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 620 pages
...by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration nor vulgar antipathy toward them. / hold their order in cold and decent respect. I hold...I think they are only good when kept within their 1862.] UFE AND TIMES OP EDMUND BÜHKE. proper bounds." The only respect in which Burke's recent writings... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 504 pages
...look upon with a particular partiality, whose approbation would have been one of the highest ob jects of my ambition, — this hurts me. It is said the...part I have taken has not been equivocal. If by the aris tocracy (which, indeed, comes nearer to the point) they mean an adherence to the rich and powerful... | |
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I am accused, I am told abroad, of being a man of aristocratic principles. If by aristocracy they mean the peers, I have no vulgar admiration, nor any vulgar antipathy towards them ; I hold their order in cold and decent respect. I hold them to be of... 
