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" To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 36
1834
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A History of Irish Thought

Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 390 pages
...consecrared the srare, he says, 'that no man should approach to look into its defects or cortuptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of...subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the srare as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude' (1998: 146). Despire the...
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Political Thinkers: From Aristotle to Marx

John B. Morrall - 2004 - 162 pages
...fundamentally different to those entertained by most British people to be a dangerous mistake. He warned: 'we have consecrated the state, that no man should...dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion'. 96 Therefore, 'He who gave our nature to be perfected by our virtue, willed also the necessary means...
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Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture

Eileen Cleere - 2004 - 274 pages
...as both a threat and a promise. 4 >Turning Bones into Spoons JEWS, PAWNBROKERS, AND 'DANIEL DERONDA' To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility,...ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects...
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Thomas Sowell - 2007 - 345 pages
...fewer criminal law violations or needs for civil litigation. To Burke, "the evils of inconstancy" were "ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice." 50 In short, process costs arising from unreliable social expectations outweighed the value of incremental...
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De Zin Der Geschiedenis

Gerardus van der Leeuw - 1935 - 344 pages
...één zinnetje samen te persen. 49. (§ 61) „To avoid the evils of inconstancy and versatibility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and...the state, that no man should approach to look into defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation...
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