 To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind ; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 435by Edmund Burke - 1887Full view - About this book
 | 1741 - 858 pages
...out of their ordinary fphere. " To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the prefent poffdVors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common difpofiiions of the greatest pan of mankind ; indeed the necellary citccis of the ignorance and levity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...has not an interest in being ignorant of what it is his duty to learn. To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power,...ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have existed in all times ; yet as all times have, not been alike, true political sagacity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1770 - 140 pages
...hopes of the future, are the common difpofitions of the greateft part of mankind; indeed the neceflary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times ; yet as all times have not been alike, true political fagacity manifefts... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1784 - 136 pages
...hopes of the future, are the common difpofitions of the greateft part of mankind ; indeed the necefTary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times ; yet as all times have not been alike, true political fagacity manifefts... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...hopes of the future, are the common difpofitions of the greateft part of mankind ; indeed the neceffary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times ; yet as all times have not been alike, true political fagacity manifefts... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...hopes of the future, are the common difpofitions of the greateft part of mankind ; indeed the neceflary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times; yet as all times have not been alike, true political fagacity manifefts... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...hopes of the future, are the common difpofitions of the greateft part of mankind ; indeed the neceflary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times ; yet as 'all times have not been alike, true political fagacity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 462 pages
...neceflary effe&s of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar. Such complaints and humours have exifted in all times; yet .as all times have not been alike, true political fagacity manifefts" itfelf, in diftinguifhing that com-r plaint which only characterizes the general... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...knowledge of the subject, he sat off with gravely remarking, " That to complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power,...hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of mankind." Indeed the most of the conclusions drawn by him from the various premises laid down m the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...subject, he sat off with gravely remarking, " That to complain of the age we live in, to murmur ¡it the present possessors of power, to lament the past,...hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of mankind." Indeed the most of the conclusions drawn by him from the various premises laid down in the... | |
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