... rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice: these are the... Principles of Government: Or, Meditations in Exile - Page 33by William Smith O'Brien - 1856 - 460 pagesFull view - About this book
| Vicesimus Knox - Despotism - 1802 - 396 pages
...is, " to be among RICH traders, who, from their SUCCESS, are presumed to have "sharp and vi-' gorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. ...These are the circumstances of men who form what I should call a natural aristocracy, \vithout... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...science, or of liberal and ingenuous art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...science, or of liberal and ingenuous art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...science, or of liberal and ingenuous art — To be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...science, or of liberal and ingenuous art — To be amongst rich traders who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
| England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...science, or of liberal and ingenuous art ; to be amongst rich traders who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice ; — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox, William Hone - Despotism - 1821 - 108 pages
...requisites, to proceed to the last. The last is, " to be among RICH traders, who, from their SUCCESS, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice.— These are the circumstances of men who form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 566 pages
...legitimate principle " that station and wealth are the rewards of those who, "for their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice," they are not more honoured now, not more identified with " respectability," than they have... | |
| Vicesimus Knox, William Hone - Despotism - 1821 - 108 pages
...traders, who, from theti SUCCESS, are presumed to have sfiarp aiiu vigorous understandings, and to possee the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated as habitual regard to commutative justicesThèse are the circumstances of men who form what I should... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...requisites, to proceed to the last. The last is, " to be among rich traders, who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings,...have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice.. — These are the circumstances of men who form what I should call a natural aristocracy,... | |
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