 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...AND THE LAW OF PRIMOGENITURE. NOBILITY. — All this violent cry against the nobility I take to be a mere work of art. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1846 - 460 pages
...work by a quotation from Burke, and leave all cavillers to " chew the bitter cud of reflection." " To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1846 - 456 pages
...work by a quotation from Burke, and leave all cavillers to " chew the bitter cud of reflection." " To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...constitution by orders would have given rise. All this violent cry against the nobility I take to be a mere work of art. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 pages
...the law of primogeniture, Burke writes thus: " All this violent cry against the nobility I take to be a mere work of art. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | Peter Burke - Great Britain - 1854 - 340 pages
...primogeniture, Burke writes thus : " All this violent cry against the nobility I take to be a mere woi|k of art. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 338 pages
...nonsense, through which we might possibly have passed if they had not prevented us." Glory of the Past. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 pages
...nonsense, through which we might possibly have passed if they had not prevented us." Glory of the Past. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 320 pages
...nonsense, through which we might possibly have passed if they had not prevented us." Glory of the Past. To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 586 pages
...by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of agos, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation in any man. Even to be too tenacious of those privileges is not absolutely a crime. The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession... | |
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To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation in any man. Even to be too tenacious of those privileges is not absolutely... 
