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" These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other, where reason is perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing... "
Speech on Conciliation with America - Página 41
de Edmund Burke - 1907 - 83 páginas
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Sketch-book of Popular Geology

Hugh Miller - 1869 - 436 páginas
...touch its deceitful surface, they fare as the lords of creation did in a long posterior age, in that ' Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk. ' But, as happened to so many of the heroes of classic history, death is fame here, and by dying they...
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The Harvard Classics, Volumen 4

1909 - 500 páginas
...gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns f rore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed Furies...
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution

Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 páginas
...perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides; and there is no sure...overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company.47 The first passage reveals that expediency was an important practical element in Burke's...
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Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays

Robert P. George - 1992 - 388 páginas
...perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion: for high and reverend authorities lift their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle. The point is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiate and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have...
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Pre-Revolutionary Writings

Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...gendemen who opposed it produced many learned authorities from Locke, Selden, Harrington, and Pufboth sides; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, 12 betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed...
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

Bryan A. Garner - 2001 - 990 páginas
...Serbonian bog is said to have been between Egypt and Palestine. Milton wrote: "A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog,/ Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,/ Where armies whole have sunk." Paradise Lost 2.592. Here is another typical allusion to ancient history: "Most of the arguments and...
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Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology ...

David Richards - 1994 - 366 páginas
...which is described by Scott as 'Serbonian' which refers us again to Milton: A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old Where armies whole have sunk.34 The Serbonian bog has multiple significances: as a mythical and epic resonance which fits the...
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The Reopening of the American Mind: On Skepticism and Constitutionalism

James W. Vice - 1998 - 304 páginas
...perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion; for high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle" (C: 78-79). This is a generalization of Cicero's dialogues of notable people and sounds very like the...
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A Treatise on Maritime Law

Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 páginas
...perplexed, and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides, and there is no sure footing in the middle." Waiving the point for the present, I shall endeavor, in another part of this chapter, to state the...
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On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 páginas
...perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides; and there is no sure...Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.11 I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question...
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