 You do not imagine, that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood, and names, and titles. No, Sir. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.  The British Quarterly Review - Stran 64uredili: - 1884Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1814 - 596 strani
...the " hie diadema." Mr. BUICKE, indeed, has given us a dispensation from high birth, when he says, " There is no qualification for government but virtue...or trade, the passport of Heaven to human place and power." But then, my Lord, we nnist have the existence of the wisdom and the virtue in actual proof,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 strani
...and of such habits as enlarge and liberalize the understanding. You do not imagine, that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood, and names, and titles. No. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Wherever they... | |
 | 1821 - 362 strani
...or apocryphal, as here it is taken. I am sure it contains a great deal of sense and truth. wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood,...and wisdom, actual -or presumptive. Wherever they art actually found, they have, in whatever state, condition, profession, or trade, the passport of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 520 strani
...in all the general propositions which come from reasonable men. You do not imagine, that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood,...the passport of Heaven to human place and honour. Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues, civil,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 strani
...evidence is evidence founded on some presumption or supposition ; so likewise presumptive reasoning ; ' There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.'1 BURKE. A presumptuous man, a presumptuous thought, a presumptuotts behaviour, all indicate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 strani
...in alt the general propositions which come from reasonable men. You do not imagine, that I wish to law, and as much in want of a pardon for doing so,...legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues, civil,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 strani
...in all the general propositions which come from reasonable men. You do not imagine, that I wish to passions instruct our reason ; because when kings...of pity to the good, we behold such disasters in tho passport of Heaven to human place and honour. Woe to the country which would madly and impiously... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 strani
...in all the general propositions which come from reasonable men. You do not imagine, that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood,...or trade, the passport of Heaven to human place and honor. Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 strani
...puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping. 2 There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Whereever they are actually found, they have, in whatever state, condition, profession, or trade, the... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 strani
...in all the general propositions which come from reasonable men. You do not imagine, that I wish to confine power, authority, and distinction to blood,...the passport of Heaven to human place and honour. Woe to the country which would madly and impiously reject the service of the talents and virtues, civil,... | |
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