 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...deliverer, the metaphysick knight of the sorrowful countenance. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publickly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...deliverer, the metaphysic knight of the sorrowful countenance. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. 1 must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong strong principle at work ; and this, for a \vlrile, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicity to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Thomas Skinner Surr - 1815 - 284 pages
...judgment, until the first effervescence is a little subsided ; till the liquor is cleared, and until I see something deeper than the' agitation of a troubled and frothy surface!" He who uttered these words seldom spoke in vain. In the circle, of which he formed so influential a... | |
 | Thomas Skinner Surr - English fiction - 1815 - 478 pages
...judgment, until the first effervescence is a little subsided ; till the liquor is cleared, and until I see something deeper than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface !" He who uttered these words seldom spoke i« vain. In the circle, of which he formed so influential... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose : but we ought to suspend our jndgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided,...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I piust be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | George Wilkins - English fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...regulated liberty as well as any one, be he who he will. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work, and this for a while...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose : but we ought to suspend our judgment until the lirsf. effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publickly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...frequently deceives others too. — Zimmerman. ccccxcn. When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong -principle at work; and this, for a...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, tliat they... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...loose : but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, tiff the liquor is cleared, and until we see something...than the agitation of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they... | |
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When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work ; and this, for a while, is, all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence... 
