... alternate famine and feast of the savage and the thief, after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labor, to the last degree tame, languid, and... Letter to a Member of the National Assembly - Página 12por Edmund Burke - 1791 - 74 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Burke - 1791 - 86 páginas
...after a time, render all courfe of flow, fteady, progreffive, unvaried occupation, and the profpect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the laft degree tame, languid, and infipid. Vv Thofe who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 páginas
...unvaried occupation, and the profpedl only of a limitted mediocrity at the end of long labour, to (he laft degree tame, languid, and infipid. Thofe who...year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be diftrefled in the midft of all their power ; but they will never look to any thing but power for their... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 páginas
...render ail courfe of flow, fteady, progreflrve, progreffive, unvaried occupation, and the profpe<S only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour,...year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be diftreffed in the midft of all their power ; but they will never look to any thing but power for their... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 408 páginas
...render all courfe of itew, fteady,' progreffive, progreffive, unvaried occupation, and the proCpect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the kit degree tame, languid, and infipid, Thofe who' have been once intoxicatedwith power, and have derived... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 páginas
...after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the last degree, tame, languid and insipid. 131 HAPPINESS. PHILOSOPHICAL happiness is to want little. Civil... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 páginas
...after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the last degree, tame, languid and insipid. 131 HAPPINESS. PHILOSOPHICAL happiness is to want little. Civil... | |
| Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 páginas
...after a time render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity, at the end of long labour, to the last degree tame, languid, and insipid. The interesting nature of their exploits may be conceived from... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 páginas
...after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited- mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the last degree, tame, languid and insipid. 131 HAPPINESS. ' PHILOSOPHICAL happiness is to want little.... | |
| Timothy Touchstone (pseud.) - 1820 - 82 páginas
...after a time render all course of " slow, steady, progressive, unvaried oc" cupation, and the prospect only of a " limited mediocrity at the end of long " labour, to the last degree tame, lan" guid, and insipid*." Encouraging va* Burke. grancy and lawless habits, by painting... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 páginas
...after a time render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity, at the end of long labour, to the last degree tame, languid, and insipid. The interesting nature of their exploits may be conceived from... | |
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