| Mark Alan Stewart - 2001 - 284 pages
...commanding reverance, respect, or admiration, especially because of great age ** Corruption—takes away every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our [nation's] constitution." — Edmund Burke The noun form (meaning "reverence") is veneration. The verb... | |
| John Garrard, James Newell - 2006 - 264 pages
...Economical Reform' in February 1 780, 'is itself the perennial source of all prodigality, and of all disorder: which loads us, more than millions of debt:...from the most venerable parts of our constitution'. Corrupt influence has been a salient feature of Irish political life throughout the 1990s and at the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...reduction of that corrupt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder — which loads us more than millions of debt — which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 pages
...reduction of that corrapt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder, — which loads us more than millions of debt, — which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most... | |
| Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1859 - 594 pages
...is itself the perennial spring of all " prodigality and of all disorder, which loads us with [two ?] millions " of debt, which takes away vigour from our...from the most " venerable parts of our constitution." If the principle of the competitive examination, and the now wide-spread evidence of its success, moral... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...that corrupt influence, which is itfelf the perennial fpring of all prodigality, and of all diforder ; which loads us, more than millions of debt ; which takes away vigour from our arms, wifdom from our councils, and every fhadow of authority and credit from the mofl venerable parts of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 pages
...reduction of that corrapt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder, — which loads us more than millions of debt, — which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most... | |
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