 All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences, we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be...  Blackwood's Magazine - Síða 5461847Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | ENGLISH & American masterpiece studies - 1906 - 408 síður
...and proper. All government, indeed everv human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1906 - 176 síður
...government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded 15 on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences;...take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1907 - 120 síður
...benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, an.d every prudent act, is founded on /^compromise and 'liarterM We balance inconveniences; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than (J^" v subtle disputants. As we must give away some... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1921 - 442 síður
...determine." '• All government, indeed even- human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act. is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others : and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants." " Magnanimity in politics is not... | |
 | Talbot Baines - 1928 - 120 síður
...says : — " All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants." But have not all wise men always... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1928 - 220 síður
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants. . . . Man acts from adequate motives... | |
 | 1886 - 696 síður
...Burke, that " all government, indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." "We balance...take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants." Whence, for the most part, comes... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 síður
...logical illation. All government, indml every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others. Man acts from motives relative to his interests ; and not on metaphysical speculations." Shelley could... | |
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