... order ; but when the high roads are broken up and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things is requisite,... Annual Register of World Events - Seite 131778Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 Seiten
...who are 147 nurtured m office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...comprehension of things is requisite than ever office gave, or that office can ever give. Mr. Grenville thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 Seiten
...who are nurtured in office, di> admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...ever office gave, or than office can ever give. Mr. GrenvUle1 thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation than in truth it deserves. He... | |
| James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1819 - 314 Seiten
...expressed himself with a different application, " the high roads are broken up, and the waters are out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent." I will give them credit, moreover, of believing they foresee, that, if they embark upon the billows... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 Seiten
...who are nurtured in office, do "admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but " when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than of" fice ran ever give." Nor is it in new combinations of circumstances alone' that general principles... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 Seiten
...in their common order ; but when the high roads . are broken up, and the waters are out, ,•#/(&& a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords...than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." Public discontent and confusion overspreading the country like a vast inundation, and effacing all... | |
| 1827 - 496 Seiten
...art, and expand at once to the full proportions of a statesman and legislator? In such an emergency, "when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent," must not the " attorneys," Adams and Jefferson, be overwhelmed in the stormy elements, which, like... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 Seiten
...persons wlio are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order. When the high roads are broken up, and the waters...out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the Jilc affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order. When the high roads are broken up, and the waters...out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the Jile affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1766 - 458 Seiten
...persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension oi things is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give. I\/r. Grenville thought... | |
| William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - 1826 - 646 Seiten
...the political affairs of his country, and to guide its public councils in those moments of difficulty when " a new and troubled scene is opened, and the " file affords no precedent," — is a question which we have no adequate means of determining. His diplomatic correspondence will... | |
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