 English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it, and as they are full grown in fortune long before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 41by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pike, or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason has any opportunity to exert itself for remedy of the excesses of their premature power. The... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink tho intoxicating draught of authority ll dominion before their heads are able to bear it, and...before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...are whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pipe or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before they are ripe in principle, neither Nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...are whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pipe or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before they are ripe in principle, neither Nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...whipping at school, or that we see trail ing a pike, or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...are whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pike or bending over a desk at home. But as English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before their heads are able to bear it, and as they are full-grown in fortune long before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason has any opportunity... | |
 | Sir William Wedderburn, Raj Jogeshur Mitter - India - 1899 - 250 pages
...whipping at school, or that we see trailing a pike or bending over a desk at home. But as English youths in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...they are full grown in fortune long before they are ripf in principle, neither nature nor reason have opportunity exart themselves for remedy of the excesses... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...English youth in India drink \ho intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads arc able to bear it, and as they are full grown in fortune...before they are ripe in principle, neither Nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...whipping at " school, or that we see trailing a pike, or bending " over a desk at home. But as English youth in " India drink the intoxicating draught of...before " they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason " has any opportunity to exert itself for remedy " of the excesses of their premature power.... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - Political science - 1920 - 332 pages
...the native, regard for his habits and wants, the Company's servants failed to display. "The English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority...before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for the excesses of their premature power. The consequences... | |
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