 ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 544edited by - 1775Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us. I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...her own v--;> v 1 when I reflecl upon thefe effefb, when 1 fee hoi* profitable they have been to m, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt.and die away within roe. My rigour relents. I pardon fomethiho to (he'fpirit of Liberty. I am... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...has been fuffered to take her own way to perfection : when I reflect upon thefe eflects, when I fee how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the...prefumption in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, ancf die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon fomething to the fpirit of liberty. I am fenfible,... | |
 | Biography - 1800 - 702 pages
...lullVred to take her own way to perfection : when I refieft upon thefe effefls, when I fee how p-o6tab!e they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power fink, and all rn-fcription in the wifdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...when I fee how profitable they have been to us, feel all the pride of power fink, and all prefump tion in the wifdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents, pardon fomething to the fpirit of liberty. I am fenfible, Sir, that all which I have afierted in my... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when 1 see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when 1 see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...has been suffered to lake herown way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power, sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor... | |
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