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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical - Page 142
by Edmond Burke - 1815
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 lehte
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in...of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give. Mr. Grenville thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, 5. köide

1775 - 868 lehte
...conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions : and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order.; but then the high roads are broken up, and tig waters out, when a new and troubled fane is opened, and...
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Speech ... on American taxation

Edmund Burke - 1775 - 64 lehte
...conduced. Thefc forms are adapted to ordinary occafions; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fceneii opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...
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Annual Register of World Events, 18. köide

1778 - 626 lehte
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order ; out when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened,...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., 18. köide

1791 - 634 lehte
...conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 lehte
...conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 lehte
...conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on...when the high roads are broken up, and the waters oufy when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a...
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The History, Debates, and Proceedings of Both Houses of Parliament ..., 7. köide

Great Britain. Parliament - 1792 - 608 lehte
...occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtered in office do admirably well, as long as things go on }n their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1. köide

Dugald Stewart - 1792 - 630 lehte
...and the waters out, when a new " and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no prece" dent, then it is, that a greater knowledge of mankind, and " a far more extenfive comprehenfion of things, is requifite, " than ever office gave, or than office can ever give."...
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Letters to the Peers of Scotland: By the Earl of Lauderdale

James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - 1794 - 334 lehte
...here no precedent that could be called in, no official experience that could aid or affift ; *' for, when the high roads are ** broken up and the waters out, when a ** new and troubled fcene is opened, and ** the file affords no precedent; then it is " that a greater knowledge of mankind...
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