 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 488 pages
...rejecting, " nevertheless, the application of sound and " wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and " pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...and liberal " principles, whose excess indeed may be dan" gerous, but whose foundation is in truth. " This, in my mind, is the true conduct of a " British... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 516 pages
...liberal " principles, whose excess indeed may be dan" gerous, but whose foundation is in truth. " This, in my mind, is the true conduct of a " British statesman ; but they who resist indis" criminately all improvements, as innovations, " may find themselves compelled to submit to "... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1835 - 650 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...to innovations although they are not improvements. My right honourable friend has been actuated by the spirit which I have endeavoured to describe. Convinced... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - Great Britain - 1836 - 546 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...excess, indeed, may be dangerous, but whose foundation STATE OF THE SILK TRADE. 527 is in truth. This, Sir, in my mind, is the true conduct of a British statesman;... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...to innovations although they are not improvements. My right honourable friend has been actuated by the spirit which I have endeavoured to describe. Convinced... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...to innovations although they are not improvements. " My right honourable friend has been actuated by the spirit which I have endeavoured to describe.... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - Great Britain - 1856 - 536 pages
...theories, but not rejecting the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing with sobriety and caution into the service...any generous and liberal principles, whose excess may indeed be dangerous, but whose foundation is in truth. This, sir, in my mind, is the true conduct... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...but they who resist indiscriminately all improvement аз innovation may find themselves compelled at last to submit to innovations although they are not... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 810 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...foundation is in truth. This, sir, in my mind, is the true cdnduct of a British statesman ; but they who resist indiscriminately all improvement as innovation... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1318 pages
...not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound and wholesome knowledge to practical affairs, and pressing, with sobriety and caution, into the...to innovations although they are not improvements." * A distinguished statesman and writer of France has thus described the most important effect of Mr.... | |
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... of despotism, or the licentiousness of unbridled freedom — reconciling power with liberty : not adopting hasty or ill-advised experiments, or pursuing any airy and unsubstantial theories ; but not rejecting, nevertheless, the application of sound... 
