| 1887 - 872 pages
...composed and at rest, from their conduct or their expressions in a state of disturbance and irritation. It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that...any speculative principle, either of government or freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...irritation. It is befides a very great miflake to imagine, that mankind follow up practically any fpeculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as...as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englifhmen ftop very fhort of the principles upon which we fuppbrt any given part of our conflitution... | |
| 210 pages
...organic unity of society, which he appears to accept in the case of the Americans only conditionally ("We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support . . . our Constitution") ; 2* (3) the science of jurisprudence, which may be on both sides and may... | |
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