 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it is in possession. But you may object —... | |
 | 1811 - 334 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...obstinacy that; rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it is in possession. But you may object —... | |
 | France - 1811 - 338 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...resources of an understanding fruitful in expedients, are to.be exercised; they are to be exercised in a continued conflict with the combined » force force... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is snperadded is to be fitted t9 what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...expedients are to be exercised ; they are to be exercised MI a continued conflict with the combined force of opposite vices; with the obstinacy that rejects... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it is in possession. But you may object —... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...force of opposite vices ; with the obstinacy that rqects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...When the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...continued conflict with the combined force of opposite views ; with the obstinacy which rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...useful parts of an old establishment are kept, andr what is superadcled is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it is in possession. .But you may object—... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 446 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady persevering attention,...obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with every thing of which it is in possession. But you may object, 'A... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady, persevering attention,...obstinacy that rejects all improvement, and the levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. But you may object —... | |
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At once to preserve and to reform is quite another thing. When the useful parts of an old establishment are kept, and what is superadded is to be fitted to what is retained, a vigorous mind, steady, persevering attention, various powers of comparison... 
