 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...can handle; which they can mtafure with a two- foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. 4 Without the principles of the jacobins, perhaps without any principles at all, they phyed the game of that I, ctmn There was. a beaten road before them. The powers of Europe were armed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle;...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. THE LABOURING POOR. THE vigorous and laborious class of life has lately got from the ban ton of the... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle;...with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten ringers. THE LABOURING POOR. THE vigorous and laborious class of life has lately got from the ban ion... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...Ministry or their connexions in 1796, "to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit but that which they can handle ; which they can nieasure with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers." At no period did he assume the... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...Ministry, or their connexions, in 1796, " to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit but that which they can handle...two-foot rule; which they can tell upon ten fingers." As it has been frequently maintained that he ultimately swerved from those principles of freedom with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...and in means t« rtiem appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit hut that which they can handle ; which they can measure...two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. PRUDENCE. There is a courageous wisdom : there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...elevated. Link-ness in object and in mean*, to them appear* soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle...can tell upon ten fingers. Without the principles nif the jacobins, perhaps without any principle* at all, they played the gameofthat faction. There... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle...can measure with a two-foot rule ; which they can teU upon ten fingers.' " This is a subject which, if we may judge from Mr. Burke's frequent recurrence... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...elevated. Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle ; which they can measure with a two-foot rula ; which they can tell upon ten fingers.' " This is a subject which, if we may judge from Mr. Burke's... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle ; which uwy can measure with a two-foot rule ; which .they can tell upon ten fingers.' " This is a subject which, if we may judge from Mr. Burke's frequent recurrence to it in his writings,... | |
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Littleness in object and in means, to them appears soundness and sobriety. They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle; which they can measure with a two-foot rule ; which they can tell upon ten fingers. 
