 Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 29de Edmund Burke - 1807Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | David Williams - 1999 - 534 pages
...affairs, on which they pronounce • 511 • with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind . . . But I may say of our preacher utinam nugis tota illa dedisset tempora saevitiae. All things in... | |
 | William F. May - 2001 - 300 pages
...affairs — on which they [clergymen] pronounce with such confidence — they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. . . . Surely the church...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. 'Social activists, on the other hand, have argued that the church should not deserve any holiday truce... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...England, have ever breathed less of the spirit of moderation than this lecture in the Old Jewry. . . . This pulpit style, revived after so long a discontinuance,...novelty, and of a novelty not wholly without danger. . . . If the noble Seekers should 6nd nothing to satisfy their pious fancies in the old staple of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1955 - 384 pages
...from the pulpit, except in the days of your league in France, or in the days of our solemn league and covenant in England, have ever breathed less of the...part of the discourse. The hint given to a noble and * Psalm cxlix. reverend lay-divine, who is supposed high in office in one of our universities*, and... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." In the debate in the Virginia legislature, no speaker insinuated even, we believe, that the slaves... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1854 - 686 pages
...inexperienced in all its affairs on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the Church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. * Did we not know that this was written in the last century and in England, we might suppose it was... | |
 | 1892 - 712 pages
...so much confidence. They have nothing of politics but the jassions they excite. Surely the church ui place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and anicwities of mankind.' This was the time of the Corn l*w struggle, and through the long worse of that... | |
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