 | 1741 - 858 oldal
...a fupport ; . nut fpirit of the law, justified in stepping a little out of their ordinary fphere. " To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent poffdVors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 oldal
...impossible for him to attain, if he has not an interest in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the...ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have existed in all times ; yet as all times have, not been alike, true political sagacity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1770 - 140 oldal
...impofllble for him to attain, if he has not an intereft in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent pofleflbrs of power, to lament the part, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - 604 oldal
...difiracled, it is the duty of private people to (rep fomcthin-g out of their fphere. He allows that to complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the preicnt poficllbrs of power, to lamvnt the paft, and conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are... | |
 | 1780 - 852 oldal
...origin, he had treated of moft of thofe difcon* tents, but he had f.-t off with gravely remarking, that " to complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefunt pofleflors of power, to lament the pail, to conceive ejtravagant hopes of the future, ere the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1784 - 136 oldal
...impoffible for him to attain, if he has not an intereft in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent pofleflbrs of power, to lament the paft, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 oldal
...impoflible for him to attain, if he has not an interett in being ignorant. of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent poflefTors of power, to lament the paft, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 oldal
...impoffible for him to attain, if he has not an intereft in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent poffeffors of power, to lament the paft, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 462 oldal
...impoffible for him to attain, if he has not an intereft in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To "complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent pofleffors of power, to lament the paft, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 oldal
...impossible for him to attain, if he has not an interest in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the...ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have existed in all times ; yet as all times have not been alike, true political sagacity... | |
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance... 
