 This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance...  An Introductory Discourse: Delivered Before the Literary and Philosophical ... - Page 13by DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio. in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious; Jlbeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 pages
...it as one of the causes of the revolution. " This study," says he, " renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 pages
...formidable adversary to government. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
 | John Farmer - 1823 - 526 pages
...injurious, they immediately set themselves in array against it. " In other countries," says Burke, " the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance — here, they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of grievance... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Meunt studio, in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full...mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance... | |
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