 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 σελίδες
...emergencies — " 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...common order ; but when the high roads are broken itp, and the waters are out, token a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent,... | |
 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - 1826 - 646 σελίδες
...the 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. His diplomatic correspondence will... | |
 | William Pinkney, Henry Wheaton - 1826 - 632 σελίδες
...affairs of- his country, and to guide its public councils in those moments of difficulty when " fi new and troubled scene is opened, and the " file affords no precedent," — is a question which we have no adequate means of determining. His diplomatic correspondence will... | |
 | 1827 - 492 σελίδες
...art, and expand at once to the full proportions of a statesman and legislator? In such an emergency, " when the high roads are broken up, and the waters...scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent," must not the " attorneys," Adams and Jefferson, be overwhelmed in the stormy elements, which, like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 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. Mr. Grenvllle thought better of the wisdom and power of human legislation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 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...of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." that general principles assist us in the conduct of affairs ; they render... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 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...of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." Nor is it in new combinations of circumstances alone, that general principles... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 590 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...of things is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give." Men of general views possess a natural superiority over the common drudges... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 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...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, and a far more extensive... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - 582 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 tlie high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the... | |
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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... 
