 | Molly Worthen - 2007 - 379 pages
...and affairs in a large society ... to despise danger in the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and...fault is committed with impunity and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences . . . these are the circumstances of men that form what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 pages
...armies to command and to obey; to be taught to dedanger in the pursuit of honor and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and...fault is committed with impunity and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences; to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 pages
...armies to command and to obey; to be taught to dedanger in the pursuit of honor and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and...fault is committed with impunity and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences; to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1914 - 480 pages
...command and to obey; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and...fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences; — to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from... | |
 | 1908 - 324 pages
...been at the head of the Colonial Office, the Boer War would never have occurred. Having been " formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and...in which no fault is committed with impunity," and knowing that " the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences," he would have conducted... | |
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To be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; To be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the... 
