 By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations,...  Works - Page 135by Edmund Burke - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occafional intereft may be diffolved at pleafure — but the ftate ought not to be confidered as nothing better... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occafional intereft may be difiblved at pleafure — but the ftate ought not to be confidered as nothing better... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for obje6bs of mere occafional intereft may be diflblved at pleafure—but the ftate ought not to be confidered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 380 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...father's life. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contraits for objects of- mere occafional intereft ma.j be diSTolved at pleafure — but the ftate... | |
 | 1790 - 612 pages
...look with horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt raihly to hack that aged parent ¡a pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians,...paternal conftitution, and renovate their father's life.' Much of what we have here quoted from Mr. B. with much more which we have not, though urged by him... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1790 - 606 pages
...horror on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pisces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes...paternal conftitution, and renovate their father's life.' Much of what we have here quoted from Mr. B. with much more which we have not, though urged by him... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horror on thofe children of their country, who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...paternal conftitution, and renovate their father's life. — Ibid. STATE, (REASONS OF.) I ADMIT that reafon of ftate will not, in many cireumftances, permit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...prejudice we are taught to look with horrour on thofe children of their country who are prompt rafhly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occafional intereft may be difrolved at pleafure — but the ftate ought not N4 tq to be confidered as nothing... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...guilt which failure will cast upon them. Like the daughters of Pelias, they unscrupulously ' hack their aged parent in pieces, and put * him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous ' wt'ods and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal * constitution, und renovate... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...taught to look with ' horrour on thofe children of ' their country, who are prompt ' rafhly to hack this aged parent in pieces and put him into the ' kettle...in hopes ' that by their poifonous weeds ' and wild incantation they may 1 regenerate the paternal confti' tulion and renovate their fathers' life." Before... | |
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