 ... in office, 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...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Síða 118eftir Dugald Stewart - 1821Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1775 - 868 síður
...fcrms in which it is conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions : and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order.; but then the high roads are broken up, and tig waters out, when a new and troubled fane is opened, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1775 - 64 síður
...forms in which it i» conduced. Thefc forms are adapted to ordinary occafions; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fceneii opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,... | |
 | 1778 - 626 síður
...important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do...well, as long as things go on in their common order ; out when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened,... | |
 | 1791 - 634 síður
...forms in which it is conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 síður
...forms in which it is conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 síður
...forms in which it is conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long...when the high roads are broken up, and the waters oufy when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1792 - 608 síður
...occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtered in office do admirably well, as long as things go on }n their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,... | |
 | James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - 1794 - 334 síður
...here no precedent that could be called in, no official experience that could aid or affift ; *' for, when the high roads are ** broken up and the waters out, when a ** new and troubled fcene is opened, and ** the file affords no precedent; then it is " that a greater knowledge of mankind... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 374 síður
...office rarely poflefs minds of remarkable enlargement. Perfons nurtured in the forms and habits of office do admirably well as long as things go on in...common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, when the waters are out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the fie affords no precedent)... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 síður
...forms in which it is conducted. Thefe forms are adapted to ordinary occafions ; and therefore perfons who are nurtured in office do admirably well, as long...broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled fcene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,... | |
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