 ... faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not a single act, or a single event, which determines it. Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the expevience...  The Principles of Success in Literature - Page 154by George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 163 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of, and the prospect of the future . must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...has qualified to administer, in extremities, this crit:c.il, ambiguous, bitter potion to a distempered state. Times, and occasions, and provocations,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...administer in extremities this critical, ambiguous, bitter portion to a distempered state. Times and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons.... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...administer in extremities this critical, ambiguous, bitter portion to a distempered stale. Times and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...qualified to administer in extremities this critical, amhiguous, hitter potion to a distempered state. Times and occasions, and provocations, will teach... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1836 - 130 pages
...past, before their destruction is accomplished. But, when things are in this lamentable conddtipn, the na*ture of the disease is to indicate the remedy to .those qualified to administer it. " Times, and occasions, and provocations," says Mr. Burke, " will teach... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 554 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...critical, ambiguous, bitter potion, to a distempered slate. Times, and occasions, and provocations will teach their own lessons. The wise will determine... | |
 | 1850 - 836 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospects of the future must be ¡is bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition, the nature of the disease is to indicate tho remedy to those whom nature has qualified to administer, in extremities, this critical, ambiguous,... | |
 | William Adams - 1851 - 48 pages
...indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...administer in extremities, this critical, ambiguous, and bitter potion to a distempered state. Times and occasions and provocations will teach their own... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...future must bo as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable cbnditiori, the nature of the disease is to indicate the remedy...administer in extremities this critical, ambiguous, and bitter potion to a distempered State. Times and occasions and provocations will teach their own... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1853 - 610 pages
...indeed before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past. When things are in that lamentable condition,...occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lesson. The wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression... | |
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