 | 1810 - 522 Seiten
...present, but on those of antecedent times. * We know that we have made no discoveries, and we thivk that ' no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great 4 principles tij 'government :\ nor in the ideas of liberty^ which were 4 understood, lung before we... | |
 | 1811 - 572 Seiten
...fine passage in Mr. Burke's Reflections, in which the following sentiments occur : " We know that we have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries...morality ;nor many in the great principles of government j nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before •we were born, altogether as well... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 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... | |
 | 1821 - 362 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 Seiten
...progrese among us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that U-« ple. They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt their morals ; they pervert m morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1835 - 196 Seiten
...no progress among 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 93 be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 Seiten
...no progress among 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 boni, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 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... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 446 Seiten
...such subjects, and there was here in Mr. Godwin's work nothing new. " We know (said Mr. Burke) that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality," and certainly it would have been somewhat strange, if men had been living in society from the beginning... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 Seiten
...in other respects. So far from admitting the truth of the assertion, that there are " no discoveries to be made in morality, nor many in the great principles of government," we must think that these sciences were, until almost within our own times, in their very infancy. Nearly... | |
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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... 
