 | 1775 - 868 pages
...defence, full of- refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the prelVuie of the grievance by the badnefs 'of the principle. They augur mifgovernmentat adiftance; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...defence, full of refourees. I n other countries, .the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftince;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...defence, full of refources. In other countries, the people, more fimple, and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an...; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, m mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. SUPERSTITION. BUT is superstition the greatest of all possible vices ? In its possible excess I think... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...sagacity of Burke : he assigns it as one of the causes of the revolution. " This study," says he, " renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...assigns it as ono of the causes of the revolution. "This study," says he, "render men acute, inqnisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government hy an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | John Farmer - Local history - 1823 - 526 pages
...injurious, they immediately set themselves in array against it. " In other countries," says Burke, " the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast,...anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach... | |
 | William Tudor - United States - 1823 - 544 pages
...not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt ttvdia in morel. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous,...prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources." General Gage wrote to the ministry; " When the houses were ready 10 receive the troops, the officers,... | |
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This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual... 
