 ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption...  Burke on Conciliation with the Colonies - Page 15by Edmund Burke - 1920 - 87 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...profitable they have been to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I refleft upon thefe effeCts, when I f:e how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I reflect upon thefe eflects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all' prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, ancf die away within me.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...has been-fuffered to take her own way to perfection: when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...nature has been lufiered to take her own way to perfection : when I refka upon thefe effefts, when 1 fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon thefe effects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My... | |
 | 1911 - 592 pages
...little ' or nothing to any care of ours ; and that they are not squeezed ' into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...been suffered to take her own ' way to perfection.' It must be admitted that the freedom of Oxford and Cambridge, particularly in the vexed sphere of religious... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when 1 see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when 1 see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption... | |
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