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" ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again without having models and patterns of approved utility... "
Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century - Page 579
edited by - 1911 - 724 pages
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power ; late reformations are terms imposed...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common...patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysick rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium,...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building it up again, without having models and patterns...life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medinm, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight lint. Indeed, in the gross and complicated...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pages
...be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. * * * * Early reformations are amicable arrangements with a friend in power ; late reformations are...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

1821 - 362 pages
...an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building it up again, without having models and patterns...life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medinm, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered, in any tolerable degree, for ages, the common...patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These raetaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium,...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - 1833 - 376 pages
...as possible to the Metaphorical form. The following is an example of the same kind of expression : " These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of man undergo such a variety of refractions, and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. These metaphysic rights, entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of man undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard Withington - 1836 - 532 pages
...characters, which I have for twenty years, been preparing for speedy publication. THE PURITAN. No. 30. These metaphysic rights, entering into common life,...straight line Indeed in the gross and complicated muss of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard] [Withington - 1836 - 256 pages
...living characters, which I have for twenty been preparing for speedy publication. THE PURITAN. No. 30. These metaphysic rights, entering into common life,...light, which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the liivvg of nature, refracted from their straight line Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human...
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