Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling,... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Side 29af Edmund Burke - 1807Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Gerard Hallock - 1865 - 326 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the Church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." I am aware that these views concerning the sphere and duties of the gospel ministry in this respect,... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with BO much confidence, they know nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." Several letters are addressed to Professor1 Girardin, in the early part of 1815, in reference to events... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is a place where one day's trace ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. This pulpit style, revived... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they know nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the disMiiMoiis and animosities of mankind." Several letters are addressed to Professor1 Girardin, in the... | |
| Frederick Perry - 1873 - 540 sider
...well sigh and murmur that they got all that in the newspapers on week-days. " Surely," wrote Burke,* " the church is a place where one day's truce ought...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." It is well for us to bear in mind that forms of prayer are useful, but they tend to formality. The... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 sider
...ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. They have nothing of politics that has five hundred pounds has to his larger proportion...to an equal dividend in the product of the joint st Steady, independent minds, when they have an object of so serious a concern to mankind as government... | |
| Frank Parnell - 1875 - 94 sider
...politics and questions which agitate men's minds at the time ought to be banished from the pulpit. " Surely the church is a .place where one day's truce...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind." (u) Of what a number of preachers is this saying of Joubert true : " They are not to be condemned for... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dfssensions and animosities of mankind. BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France, \ 790. From... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...part of the discourse. The hint given to a noble and * Psalm cxlix. reverend lay-divine, who is supposed high in office in one of our universities*, and... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1881 - 470 sider
...in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely the church is...allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. ^-.K^. ,fc-o~UA^ h. j, *< -T. e^ .. , This pulpit style, revived after so long a discontinuance, had... | |
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