... bitter potion to a distempered state. Times, and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons. The wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation... Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind - Page 298by Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 562 lehteFull view - About this book
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 lehte
....wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable, from sensibility to oppressive, the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive...the very last resource of the thinking and the good/ . i I have hitherto, in this work, endeavoured to estimate its character as an eviction of truth, an... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 lehte
...determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure;... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 lehte
...determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. . DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure;... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 lehte
...minds. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end, and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 lehte
...and provocations, will teach their own lessons. — The wise will determine from the gravity of.the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 lehte
...definable. It is not a single act, or a single event, determines it. Governments must be abused abased and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of;...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a " government... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 lehte
...determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression ; the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. DESPOTISM. IT is the nature of despotism to abhor power held by any means but its own momentary pleasure... | |
| 1821 - 362 lehte
...will teach their own lessons. — The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritahle from sensibility to oppression ; the highminded from...the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted by the pulpit of the Old Jewry, namely, the " right to form a government... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 lehte
...relief from it by other means be truly gloomy, before he will lift his voice to call his fellow citizens to arm against their fellowcitizens. " The speculative...occasions, and provocations, teach their terrible lessons. When the rare imperious cases do occur, in which the patriotism that before made obedience... | |
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