 | Abraham Payne, Providence (R.I.). City Council - 1881 - 150 Seiten
...in the past, to the physical improvement and felicity of the race ; but I expect "no new discoveries in morality, nor many in the great principles of government,...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be when the grave shall have heaped its mould upon our presumption... | |
 | Providence (R.I.). City Council, Abraham Payne - 1881 - 144 Seiten
...the past, to the physical improvement and felicity of the race ; but I expect " no new discoveries in morality, nor many in the great principles of government,...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be when the grave shall have heaped its mould upon our presumption... | |
 | William Simpson Pearson - 1882 - 292 Seiten
...feelings iu reply to the kind promises of the North to convert and enlighten them : " We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality ; nor many iu the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 Seiten
...of our forefathers. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that -we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...are to be made in morality ; nor many in the great principle! of government, nor in the ideas of liberty which were understood long before we wer born,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 392 Seiten
...Parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility. . . . We think that no discoveries are to be made in morality, nor many in the great principles of government. . . . We are resolved to keep an established Church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1895 - 236 Seiten
...sciolists of his generation is equally applicable to the sophists and sciolists of ours. " We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1904 - 976 Seiten
...als die Alten." [Mackintosh's thesis (which had been previously put by Burke : " We know that we make no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality," Reflections on the French Revolution, ed. 1790, p. 128) obscurci the facts inasmuch .is it fails to... | |
 | 1908 - 1060 Seiten
...preface. "Burke says in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," '"We Englishmen know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality." In short, the Englishman's puritanism and protestantism, like the American's, has boxed the ethical... | |
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We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... 
