| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and 1 hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...effects of which, I am afraid, are for ever incurable. CONDORCET. CONDORCET (though no marquis, as he styled himself before the revolution) is a man of another... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and, I hope, without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and, I hope, without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically... | |
| 1808 - 546 páginas
...by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence — one, or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...surely a little too general, led him into measures which were greatly mischevious to himself, and for that reason, among others perhaps, fatal to his... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...perhaps fatal to his country ; measures, the effects of \\hich I am afraid, are for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1810 - 612 páginas
...much by general maxims. * speak w ith the freedom of history, and I hope without offt-nce. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too jreneral, led him into measures that weir greatly mischievous to himself: and for that reason among... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...country; measures, the effects of which, I am afraid, ace for ever incurable. He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece... | |
| John Adams - 1813 - 324 páginas
...leave to lament. For a wise man, he seemed to me to be governed too much by general maxims. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...are for ever incurable. He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so. crossly indented and whimsically... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 páginas
...much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most...effects of which, I am afraid, are for ever incurable. CONDORCET. CONDORCET (though no marquis, as he styled himself before the revolution) is a man of another... | |
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