 Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was,...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 36by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 372 pages
...give in reality to every political principle its diftinguifhing colour, and difcriminating effecT:. The circumftances are what render every civil and...felicitated France on her .enjoyment of a government (for fhe then had a. government) without enquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was adminiftered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 380 pages
...principle its diftinguifhing colour, and difcriminating effect. The circumftances are what render e?ery civil and political fcheme beneficial or noxious to...felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for fhc then had a government) without enquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was adminiftered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 pages
...give in reality to every political principle its diftinguifhing colour, and difcriminating effect. The circumftances are— what render every civil and...as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common fcnfe, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for fhe then had a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1791 - 418 pages
...give in reality to every political principle its diftinguifhing colour, and difcriminating effect. The circumftances are what render every civil and political fcheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abftracbedly fpeaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common fenfe, ten years... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...give in reality to every political principle its diftinguifhing colour, and difcriminating effect. The circumftances are what render every civil and political fcheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abftradtedly fpeaking, government, as well as liberty, is good ; yet could I, in common fenfe$ ten... | |
 | John Wilde - 1793 - 688 pages
...in reality to every " political principle its diitinguifhing colour, and ** difcriminating effect. The circumftances are " what render every civil and...political fcheme " beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abftracted" ly fpeaking, government, as well as liberty, is " good ; yet could I, in common fenfe,... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...lickly to congratulate men upon a bleffing, * that they have really received one l8 ;' and alfo, that * the circumftances are what ' render every civil and...political fcheme * beneficial or noxious to mankind ''.* On thefe principles the conduct of the Revo11 Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 9. '»... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1799 - 538 pages
...the very words of the author who firft detected it ". He quotes the following fentence of Burke : " The circumftances are *' what render every civil and...ago, have " felicitated France on her enjoyment of a govern• " ment, (for fhe then had a government,) without " inquiry what the nature of that government... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1799 - 532 pages
...the author who firft detected it ". He quotes the following fentcnce of Burke : " The circumflances are " what render every civil and political fcheme *' beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abitractedly " fpeaking, government, as well as liberty, is good ; *' yet could I, in common fenfe,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...mankind. Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good , yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered... | |
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