 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 strani
...creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted...birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic. DEMOCRATIC NOBLES. TURBULENT, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 strani
...what is necessary to them in monarchies. They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 strani
...what is necessary to them in monarchies. They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 strani
...preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitick. It is said that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmettck. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | John Bristed - 1811 - 556 strani
...creeping sycophants, and the blind, abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in the shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted...to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 strani
...creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted...to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 strani
...creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted...birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic. DEMOCRATIC NOBLES. TURBULENT, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 strani
...creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted...preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neithe? unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitick. It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 strani
...what is necessary to them in monarchies. They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
 | 1821 - 362 strani
...speculations of the petulant, assuming, shortsighted coxcombs of philosophy. Some decent regnlatcd pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation)...to prevail over two hundred thousand. True ; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with... | |
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It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. This sort of discourse does well enough with the lamp-post for its second: to men who may reason calmly,... 
