 ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Sivu 119tekijä(t) Edmund Burke - 1839Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Lawrence - 1844 - 108 sivua
...righteousness." Rev. R. Ainslie. BOOK III. page 1. The justly celebrated Burke finely observes, " We should approach to the faults of the state, as to...father with pious awe, and trembling solicitude." In this sentiment I fully concur, firmly believing with another writer on the same subject, that we... | |
 | 1848 - 662 sivua
...seems to us, on the contrary, that, to use the language of Burke in a wellknown passage, we ought ' to approach to the faults of the state ' as to the wounds...father, with pious awe and trembling ' solicitude.' To threaten its subversion, if reformation be not promptly granted, is to imitate those savages who,... | |
 | Charles T. Porter - 1849 - 232 sivua
...consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects but with due caution ; that he should approach to the faults of the state...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." This caution we have endeavored to exercise, and such awe and solicitude we trust our patriotism inspires... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 608 sivua
...popular will not be speedily complied with. On the contrary, we ought, in the language of Burke, ' to approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.' To threaten its cc 4 subversion, if reformation be not promptly granted, is to imitate those savages... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 612 sivua
...popular will not be speedily complied with. On the contrary, we ought, in the language of Burke, ' to approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a lather, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.' To threaten its subversion, if reformation be not... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 sivua
...fherefme I cannot, because I feel," &c. SEC. CXXXV1I. CAUTION SHOULD GUIDE POLITICAL INNOVATION. proach to the faults of the state, as to the wounds of a...father. with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wis< prejudice, we are taught to look with horror on those chil dren of their country, who are prompt... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 sivua
...look into its delects or corruptions but with duo caution; that he should never dream of l>eginning its reformation by its subversion ; that he should...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wiso prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 sivua
...beginning its reformation by its nil. version ; that he should approach to the faults of the slate however, took from this time more decided ground, and demanded a restora thiswise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 sivua
...the state, that no man should approach to look into its delects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...with horror on those children of their country who arc prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - 1854 - 660 sivua
...as the summer flies that gild an hour Then die and rot." In the ' Reflections,' again, Burke says, " We are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of the magicians, in... | |
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