 We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as...  The British Review, and London Critical Journal - Stran 2461811Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 392 strani
...Parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility. . . . We think that no discoveries are to be made in morality, nor many in the great principles of government. . . . We are resolved to keep an established Church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 strani
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...— 'nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born altogether as well as they... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1904 - 976 strani
...als die Alten." [Mackintosh's thesis (which had been previously put by Burke : " We know that we make no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality," Reflections on the French Revolution, ed. 1790, p. 128) obscurci the facts inasmuch .is it fails to... | |
 | 1908 - 1060 strani
...his general preface. "Burke says in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," '"We Englishmen know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality." In short, the Englishman's puritanism and protestantism, like the American's, has boxed the ethical... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 strani
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we...; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 strani
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were bom, altogether as well as they... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1911 - 294 strani
...is new ! Burke says, in his " Reflections on the Revolution in France " (p. 1 28), " We [Englishmen] know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality." The latter statement, which still represents the general views of Englishmen, is now proved to be entirely... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1913 - 290 strani
...the cold sluggishness of our national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 strani
...than in his day, have we ' subtilized ourselves into savages ' : like the Englishmen of his day, ' we know that we have made no discoveries ; and we...think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ' ; we, too, as members of ' eternal society,' are loth ' to separate and tear asunder the bands of... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 strani
...the cold sluggishness of our national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
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