 | 1914 - 530 pages
...heresy under Diocletian would have been excessive. More agreed with Burke that ' Circumstances ' (which some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality '...distinguishing colour and ' discriminating effect.' * In view of the altered circumstances More would have persecuted in both instances. The transformation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. * * * * What a number of faults have led to this multitude VOL, I. E 49 of misfortunes, and almost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. * * * * What a number of faults have led to this multitude VOL. I. E 49 of misfortunes, and almost... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. * * * * What a number of faults have led to this multitude vOL. I. E 49 of misfortunes, and almost... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphyeicaJ very — that it \s U gc»i; veV cou\i\> та «ялmon мнет, ton years ago, have f*l»eitar«J Francv on her enjoyment... | |
 | Leonard Withington - Digital images - 1836 - 532 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...nothing) give in reality to every political principle ita distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and... | |
 | Leonard Withington - American essays - 1836 - 278 pages
...some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abstractly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good ; yet could I, in common sense, ten years... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...relation, in all the nakedness anc *ysical abstraction. Circumstances jwhicn with Some1 gSntlemeTT pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...voluntary falsehood, for it could not be mistake or misapprehension. Mr. Burke'.s observation is, " The circumstances are what render every " civil and...mankind. Abstractedly " speaking, government, as well us liberty, is good ; yet could I, in common sense, " ten years ago, have felicitated France on her... | |
 | Literature - 1912 - 880 pages
...simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.... 
