 | Audrey Bilger - Dissenters in literature - 1998 - 268 pages
...between family and state when he advised the social critic to "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude" and urged the critic not to "hack that aged parent in pieces" (417). The force of such... | |
 | David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 pages
...of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country... | |
 | Paul Friedland - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 372 pages
...to reconstitute a body from the dismembered parts: [Man] should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country,... | |
 | David Womersley - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 472 pages
...dispute. For was it not Burke who had urged men to 'approach the faults of 15 Hntbf. I- u. 98-9. the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude'?16 A letter Gibbon wrote to his aunt Hester at the time of his father's death is relevant... | |
 | Clara Tuite - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 272 pages
...dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror upon those children of [France]... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - History - 2002 - 392 pages
...of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude' (1998: 146). Despite the patrician sentimentality and special pleading of many passages... | |
 | Steven Pinker - Psychology - 2003 - 532 pages
...written in the aftermath of the French Revolution: [One] should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 432 pages
...a kind of father. We should, Burke writes in the Reflections, "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." He adds, with obvious reference not merely to France but to the antiaristocratic radicals... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...the weaknesses of the state. He believed that citizens "should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." 41 Burke's feeling of "filial reverence" toward the state was no mere ornamental figure... | |
 | Lee Griffith - Political Science - 2004 - 420 pages
...of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." Even though the Terror in France was state terror, it was Edmund Burke who bequeathed... | |
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... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. 
