All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences, we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5461847Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| 1795 - 432 pages
...vigour as there is liberty in it. BURKE. Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol, p. 56, 7, 8. ALL government is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences...take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others. — But in all fair dealings, the thing bought must bear some proportion to the purchase paid. None... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse rather lo be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pages
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconvettiencies; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance...; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural... | |
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