 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 oldal
...setting out. — Circa vilem patulumque morabimttr orbem, Unde pudor proferre pedem vetat aid operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1767 - 368 oldal
...fetting out. — Circa vilem patulumque morabimur orbem, Unde pudor prof err e pedem vetat out open's lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it teems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be confidered as the refult.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1776 - 368 oldal
...out.. • • i Circa vilem patulumque marabimur orbent*. Unde pudor proftrre pedem vetat out eperis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet? go but a very little way towards informing ing us of the nature of the thing defined -, i>ut let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in... | |
 | John Overton - 1802 - 436 oldal
...religious-fubjects, which fome pcrlbus would infinuate. " A Definition," as the admired Burke obferves, " may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way...informing us of the nature of- the thing defined '." But the worft is, what is called a definition, is often neither a true reprefentation of the thing defined,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 oldal
...out. , *"* — Circa "vllem patulumque morabimur orbem, Unde pudor prefer re pedem vet at aut operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...be what it will, in the order of things, it feems ratlier to follow than to precede our mquiry, of which it ought to be confidered as the refult. It... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 oldal
...QT out. o • Circa vi/em patulumque morabimur orbem, Unde pudor proferre pedem -vetat aut op er is lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what. it will, in the order of things, VOL. I. H it it feems rather to follow than to precede our in- . quiry, of which it ought to be confidered... | |
 | David Irving - 1803 - 266 oldal
...properly belongs, the ambiguity is re•Bioved, and thefe members ate kept diftinct from each other. Let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order ef things, it feems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be confidered... | |
 | 1803 - 466 oldal
...with the lublimities of oratory, tkan the accuracy of reasoning) ' may be very exail, and yet go but a little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.' It is not the deiign or the purpofe of definitions to inform us of the nature of things. This is the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 oldal
...our setting out. Circa vilem patulumque morabimw orbem, Untie fudor proferre peclem vetai out operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES. GREAT discontents frequently arise in the best-constituted governments, from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 oldal
...our setting out. Circa vilem patulumque morabimur orbem, Untie pudor proferre pedem velat out operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES. GREAT discontents frequently arise in the best-constituted governments, from... | |
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined ; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry,... 
