 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
.../' * * * * / If there is any one eminent criterion, which, above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...this; — " well to know the best time and manner of yield" ing what it is impossible to keep," Government is deeply interested in every thing •which,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...people. * * * * If there is any one eminent criterion, which, above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...this; — " well to know the best time. and manner of yield" ing what it is impossible to keep." Government is deeply interested in every thing which, even... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 466 pages
...distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this: VOL. n. 'X — " well to know the best time, and manner of yielding,...upon the principles of a criminal prosecution. It h. enough for them to justify their adherence to a pernicious system, that it is not of their contrivance... | |
 | 1808 - 540 pages
...be one criterion,' said Mr. BURKE, ' which more than all the rest distinguished a wise and prudent government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this : well to know when and in what manner to yield what it is impossible to keep. Early reformations are amicable compromises... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1810 - 612 pages
...conservation. If there is any one eminent criterioti, whiclv above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...well to know the best time, and manner of yielding 1 , what it is impossible to keep."—There have been, sir, and there are, many who choose to chicane... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 730 pages
...conservation. if there is any one eminent criterion, which, above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...are, many who choose to chicane with their situation, rafher than be instructed by it. Those gentlemen argue against every desire of reformation, upon the... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...people. * * * * If there is any one eminent criterion, which, above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...; — \ " well to know the best time and manner of yield- | " ing what it is impossible to keep." * * * » Government is deeply interested in every thing... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1818 - 810 pages
...there be one criterion (said Mr. Burke) which more than all the rest distinguishes a wise and prudent government from an administration, weak and improvident, it is this: well to know when and in what manner to yield what it is impossible to keep. Early reformations are amicable compromises... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 710 pages
...speech on economical reform, " any one eminent criterion, which above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...of yielding what it is impossible to keep." There is no language in which I can better describe the wisdom and courage of Government, in at length bringing... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 716 pages
...speech on economical reform, " any one eminent criterion, which above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident,...time and manner of yielding what it is impossible to keep.1'1 There is no language in which I can better describe the wisdom and courage of Government,... | |
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... if there is any one eminent criterion, which, above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this : — " well to know the best time and manner of' yielding, what it is impossible to keep. 
