 They shake the public security; they menace private enjoyment. They dwarf the growth of the young; they break the quiet of the old. If we travel, they stop our way. They infest us in town; they pursue us to the country. Our business is interrupted; our...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Seite 183von Edmund Burke - 1866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 Seiten
...plea-fures are faddened; our very fIndies are poifoned and perverted, and knowledge is rendered worfe than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation. The revolution harpies of France, fprung from night and hell, or from that chaotic anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monftrous,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 446 Seiten
...pleafures are faddened; our very ftudies are poifoned and perverted, andknowledge is rendered worfe than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation. The revolution harpies of France, fpnmg from night and hell, or from that chaotick anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monftrous,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 440 Seiten
...pleafurcs are faddened ; our very ftudies are poifoned and perverted, andknowledge is rendered worfe than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation. The revolution harpies of France, fprung from night and hell, or from that chaotick anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monftrous,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 536 Seiten
...pleasures are saddened ; our very studies are poisoned and perverted, and knowledge is rendered wosre than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful...of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotick anarchy ^ which generates equivocally " all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 540 Seiten
...we travel, they stop our way. They infest us in town ; they pursue us to the country. Our business is interrupted ; our repose is troubled ; our pleasures...poisoned and perverted, and knowledge is rendered wosre than ignorance, by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation. The revolution harpies of... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 Seiten
...celebrated letter to. the duke of Bedford was written in 1796. Who remembers not the following passage ? ' The revolution harpies of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotick anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like... | |
 | 1817 - 398 Seiten
...they pursue us to the country. Our business is interrupted ; our repose is troubled ; our pleasure* are saddened ; our very studies are poisoned and perverted,...evils of this dreadful innovation. The revolution harpie's of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotic anarchy, which generates equivocally... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 Seiten
...public security, they menace private enjoyment, they dwarf the young, they break the quiet of the old. Knowledge is rendered worse than ignorance, by the...innovation. The Revolution harpies of France, sprung from Might and Hell, or from that chaotic anarchy which generates ' all monstrous, all prodigious things,'... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) - 1821 - 116 Seiten
...they stop our way.—They " infest us in town ;—they pursue us in the country. " — Our business is interrupted; our repose is " troubled ; our pleasures...ignorance by the enormous " evils of this dreadful threatened innovation*." Let our nobility, our landed gentry, our clergy, our substantial yeomanry;—let... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...we travel, they stop our way. They infest us in town ; they pursue us to the country. Our business is interrupted ; our repose is troubled ; our pleasures...anarchy, which generates equivocally " all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like, adulterously lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the... | |
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