To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be 'fully persuaded that all virtue which is impracticable is spurious ; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter... Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents - Página 115de Edmund Burke - 1784 - 118 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1924 - 380 páginas
...virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use. The following description of the perfected intellect is obviously'not-American. No American conceives... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 páginas
...which is impracticable is spurious ; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon... | |
| G. F. Perera - 1925 - 428 páginas
...we shall bear in mind Burke 's advice: " Rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use." Captain Bird opposed the Bill. He said: " After the many applications which had been made for... | |
| Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 páginas
...virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 páginas
...which is impracticable is spurious ; and rather to run the risque of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy ; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon... | |
| Lawrence Pearsall Jacks - 1927 - 330 páginas
...virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy. He trespasses against his duty who sleeps on his... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risque of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses 126 or a devil cf. Robert Burton,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 páginas
...virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame, and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon... | |
| Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 páginas
...others. ~ Frangois Fenelon, 1651-1715 — It is better to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use. ~ Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 ~ in America, 1956 April 4 The man with insight enough to admit his... | |
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