 | Chambers's journal - 1873 - 876 pages
...but Burke had thought out his subject well when he said : ' All government — indeed every common benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent...barter : we balance inconveniences, we give and take.' ' The people, our sovereign :' it was strange to hear so democratic a toast as this proposed by the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...neglect. ibid. My vigour relents, — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. ibid. Vol. ii./. 118. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Ibid. Vol. ii. /. 169. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I h.id not already tired you, give you very striking and...proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoy, ment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. Ibid. Vol. ii. /. 123. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Ibid. Vol. ii. /. 169. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election,... | |
 | Nahum Capen - Great Britain - 1875 - 720 pages
...principle,, but it does not explain it. It was remarked by Burke, in the British Parliament, that " All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. \Ve balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and,... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - Commerce - 1875 - 470 pages
...into ashes in their grasp. The President then announced the next regular toast : " COMMEECE." — " All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded upon compromise and barter." — EDMUND BURKE. And called upon Mr. AA Low, who responded as follows... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...renounced at the Revolution by the last of the several parties who declared for them. LORD BOLINGBROKE. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...and take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy othets ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants. As we must give away some... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...Wisdom. Gorgous. — GORGONS, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. MILTON, Paradise Lost. Government — All GOVERNMENT, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment,...prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter— EDMUND BURKE. Grace. — From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch а GRACK beyond the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...renounced at the Revolution by the last of the several parties who declared for them. LORD BULINGHROKE. nt; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little...story of Argus implies no mure * even by itself lake; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than... | |
 | Education - 1918 - 756 pages
...individual by himself and the best that one can do with him in a group. "All government," said Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance conveniences ; we give and take . . . But in all fair dealings, the thing bought must bear some proportion... | |
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. 
