 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 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 - 1909 - 498 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 bom, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1911 - 294 Seiten
...says, in his " Reflections on the Revolution in France " (p. 1 28), " We [Englishmen] know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality." The latter statement, which still represents the general views of Englishmen, is now proved to be entirely... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1913 - 290 Seiten
...sluggishness of our national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . 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 Graham - 1919 - 458 Seiten
...preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that few discoveries are to be made in morality, nor many in...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... | |
 | Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 Seiten
...day, have we ' subtilized ourselves into savages ' : like the Englishmen of his day, ' we know that we have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ' ; we, too, as members of ' eternal society,' are loth ' to separate and tear asunder the bands of... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 Seiten
...sluggishness of our national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . 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 mold on our presumption, and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 456 Seiten
...sluggishness of cSir national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . 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 mold on our presumption, and the... | |
 | 1928 - 328 Seiten
...they certainly have not been more successful than in metaphysics. " We know," wrote Burke, " that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality." The Bible is, in fact, the only book that makes great and real discoveries in that subject, as everyone... | |
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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... 
