 | 1898 - 592 páginas
...He believed that the "way of proscribing the citizens by denomination and general descriptions was a receipt of policy made up of a detestable compound of malice, cowardice, and sloth." He argued that ascendency, "in plain old English, signified pride and dominion on the one part of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 páginas
...sacred trust of power, without any of the virtues or any of the energies, that give a title to it; a receipt of policy, made up of a detestable compound...and fortitude; and therefore, that they may sleep on their watch, they consent to take some one division of the society into partnership of the tyranny... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 páginas
...sacred trust of power, without any of the virtues or any of the energies that give a title to it, — a receipt of policy, made up of a detestable compound...and fortitude ; and therefore, that they may sleep on their watch, they consent to take some one division of the society into partnership of the tyranny... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 602 páginas
...sacred trust of power, without any of the virtues or any of the energies that give a title to it, — a receipt of policy, made up of a detestable compound...and fortitude ; and therefore, that they may sleep on their watch, they consent to take some one division of the society into partnership of the tyranny... | |
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... of state, and security for constitutions and commonwealths, is nothing better at bottom, than the miserable invention of an ungenerous ambition, which would fain hold the sacred trust of power, without any of the virtues or any of the energies, that... 
