 | John Chase Lord - Civilization - 1851 - 232 pages
...comprehensive statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, speaking upon this very subject: "We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...liberty which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...no progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that wt have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will bo after the grave has heaped its mold upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...no progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen arc not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries : and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after tho grave has heaped its mold upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...no progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be mode in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that гее have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries are to be made in moralitv ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...such subjects, and there was here in Mr. Godwin's work nothing new. " We know (said Mr. Burke) that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality ;" and certainly it would have been somewhat strange, if men had been living in society from the beginning... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...no progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we iptions, dignified by the name of reason of state,...than the miserable invention of an ungenerous ambitio altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mold upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that me have made no discoveries, and AVC think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...no progress among us. Atheists arc not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries ; and we think that no discoveries are to he made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liherty,... | |
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We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... 
