 Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite.  Reflections; Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims - Page 16by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, John William Willis Bund, James Hain Friswell - 1871 - 110 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 318 pages
...says the immortal Burke, " should be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are for the most part ignorant of the character . they assume, and of the character they leave oft! Wholly unacquainted... | |
 | William Drayton - Abolitionists - 1836 - 324 pages
...says the immortal Burke, " should be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are for the most part ignorant of the character they assume, and of the character they leave ofl! Wholly unacquainted... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Sermons, English - 1837 - 368 pages
...and civil government gains as little, as that of religion by this confusion of duties;' — that ' those who quit their proper character to assume what...character they leave, and of the character they assume ;' — that, oftentimes ' unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...civil li-C berty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. ances taken together, the French Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character, to assume what...character they leave, and of the character they assume. Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling, and inexperienced in all... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character, to assume what...character they leave, and of the character they assume. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...accustomed style of prophecy. Hursley's SertAons. Those who quit their proper character, to assume what docs not belong to them, are for the greater part, ignorant...character they leave and of the character they assume. Burke он the French Revolution, ASSUMENT, Assuo, from ad and stio, to stitch or tack on. This assument... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 562 pages
...masquerades, applies equally to literary imitations : — * Those who quit their proper characters to assume ' what does not belong to them, are for...part ignorant ' both of the character they leave and the character they assume/ Deplorably ignorant of the English character, and of the inexhaustible energy... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...the abridgment of all baseness, a fault never found unattended with other viciousness. — fvlltr. THOSE who quit their proper character to assume what...belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. — Burke. CONTENTS. P«»c St.... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pages
...masquerades, applies equally to literary imitations : — ' Those who quit their proper characters to assume 4 what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant 4 both of the character they leave and the character they assume.' Deplorably ignorant of th-e English... | |
| |
