 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
 | William Corlett - 1989 - 290 pages
...winds of heaven" (368). And it is in these senses that the "evils of inconstancy and versatility" are "ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice." In other words, Burke needs the darkness of the low-road, as "other," to defend the virtue of purblind... | |
 | Ralph Lerner - 1994 - 164 pages
...2:138). When he urges a return to the ancient policy and practice of the kingdom, it is so as to avoid "the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand...than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice" (C 1:489; R 2:367-68). The recurring theme of Burke's kalam is that of return. He affects to speak... | |
 | Costas Douzinas - 2000 - 423 pages
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 | Edmund Burke - 2001 - 452 pages
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 | Clara Tuite - 2002 - 272 pages
...Austen's model of critique as diagnosis and cure conforms to the Burkean model of cure which asserts that we have consecrated the state that no man should approach...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lloyd Davis - 2003 - 344 pages
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 | Martin Loughlin - 2003 - 206 pages
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 | 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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