 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 361834Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 598 pages
...disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality, and at length dispersed to all the winds of heaven. To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility,...prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no I man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions i but with due caution ; that he should... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...reckoned among their rights. * * * To avoid, therefore, the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest...reformation by its subversion; that he should approach the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pages
...disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality, and at length disperse to all the winds 25 of heaven. To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility,...consecrated the state, that no man should approach to 30 look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pages
...disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality, and at length dispersed to all the winds of heaven. To avoid, therefore, the evils of inconstancy and...reformation by its subversion ; that he should approach to tbc faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1919 - 110 pages
...charter, others may look upon it as dishonest, but North Carolina judges, in the main, agree with Burke that no man should approach to look into its defects...approach to the faults of the State as to the wounds of a father—with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice, we are taught to look with... | |
 | Irwin Edman - 1920 - 488 pages
...other. Men would be little better than the flies of s summer. • ••••••••••• To avoid, therefore, the evils of inconstancy and...those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have cousecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions, but with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1949 - 598 pages
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 | 1973 - 560 pages
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