 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 588 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests ; you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 336 pages
...made it the staple of all wisdom, and the basis of every truth. Burke' s words are : — " You had that action and counteraction, which in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." — Reflections on the French Revolution. The following are some of the passages in which Alison has... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...Reflections on the French Revolution : — " You had that action and counteraction which in the natural and the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." Nor does the sentiment belong exclusively to the moderns. I find it in Horace's twelfth " Epistle :"—... | |
 | 1859 - 806 pages
...community was happily composed ; you had all that combination and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and confiictiug' interests, which, you considered as so great a blemish in your old and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...all that opposition of interests, you had thai action and counteraction which, in the natural :,nd in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a hlemish in your old and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...grossness. ibid. Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. Ibid. You had that action and counteraction, which in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.* Ibid. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1866 - 316 pages
...born of contraries.' Burke applies it strikingly in his French Revolution (p. 81, 8vo edit.): 'You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant parties draws out the harmony of the universe.' 20. Empedocles of Agrigentum, Bc 450. See Lucret. i.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of ait.' natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe.* On the French Revolution. The worthy gentlemen who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election,... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics - Tariff - 1872 - 354 pages
...combination and that opposition of interests, that action and that counteraction, which, in the natural and the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." This is the language of one of the- wisest men and most accomplished rniuds that ever lived. I hope our example... | |
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... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. 
