 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...measures, is able to keep his chaplain from a jail. * * * * But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high sounding words in their mouths. Grand, swelling sentiments of liberty, I am sure I do 178 not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...instep he measures, is able to keep his chaplafn from a jail. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bea to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account o their having high sounding words in their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...many, if not in the most, an oppressive degrading servitude. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. These who know what virtuous liberty is, cannut bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...many, if not in the most, an oppressive degrading servitude. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible...liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable beads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths. Grand, swelling sentiments of... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...instep he measures, is able to keep his chaplain from a jail. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high sounding words in their mouths. Grand, swelling sentiments of liberty, I am sure I do 118 not... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...many, if not in the most, an oppressive degrading servitnde. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...their mouths. Grand, swelling sentiments of liberty, 1 am sure I do not despise : they warm the heart ; they enlarge and liberalize our minds ; they animate... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...companions, and does not lead prosperity and plenty in her train. What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what ho has found to belong to him... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...conscience, ought to be suffered to have no conscience at all. What is liberty, without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. And is their example nothing? It is every thing. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...companions, and docs not lead prosperity and plenty in her train. What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible...folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...companions, and does not lead prosperity and plenty in her tr«in. What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madnoss, without tuition or restraint. The strong struggle in every individual to pre lerve poueirion... | |
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue ? It is the greatest of all possible evils ; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. 
