 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...state may stand •without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, * See the fate of Bnil'y and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, * See the fate of Bailly and Condoroet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ? I wish you may not... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...117) of the lower orders, as a " swinish multitude." But of what multitude was he [1798.] 1IG [1798.] speaking? Of a people let loose from all restraint...image could hardly have been regarded as too strong. Looked over Rennell's Memoirs of his Map of Hindoostan. The secluded Valley of Cashmere, forming, between... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...contemptuously (p. 117) of the lower orders, as a " swinish multitude." But of what multitude was he [1798.] speaking? Of a people let loose from all restraint...Had he maddened his herd of swine with a legion of dasmons, as emblematical of the savage passions with which such a miserable assemblage would be torn... | |
 | 1811 - 338 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ! " I wish " I wish... | |
 | 1811 - 334 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ! " 1 wish you may... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and, at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter? 1 wish you may not... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a, thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, •* See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and, at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter? I wish you may not... | |
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... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians,... 
