 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high-roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in...of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give. Mr. Grenville thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1902 - 220 σελίδες
...political affairs of his country, and to guide its public councils in those moments of difficulty, when " a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent," — is a question which we have no adequate means of determining. H'« diplomatic correspondence will... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in...out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and 20 the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 156 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their com. mon order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the (waters out, when a new and troubled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1911 - 318 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions, and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high-roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 σελίδες
...underlying thought or argument in each case : — (a) When the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give. (6) Obedience is what makes Government,... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1917 - 152 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on...comprehension of things is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.1 Wordsworth in his Trad pursues exactly the same line of thought, though... | |
 | Henry Higgs - 1917 - 170 σελίδες
...occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go in their common order : but when the high roads are...comprehension of things is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." * The next of our portraits is entitled The Magnificent, but the candid... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1918 - 296 σελίδες
...conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are mtrtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in...comprehension of things is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." It is just this " knowledge of mankind" and " extensive comprehension of... | |
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... are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions... 
