 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - Broj stranica: 258
...Hie mere alternative of abso> lute destruction, or unreformed existence. Sptrtam nor* tns rs; lianc exorna. This is, in my opinion, a rule of profound...upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. A maa full of warm speculative benevolence may \risb his society otherwise constituted than be finds... | |
 | William Gresley - 1836 - Broj stranica: 514
...of peers in America, would be just as sinful as to seek to dethrone or dispossess them here 1. 1 " ' Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna.' This is in my opinion...man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish society otherwise constituted than he finds it : but a good patriot and a true politician always considers... | |
 | 1846 - Broj stranica: 532
...comment upon the text, " Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna." " I cannot conceive how any man can htve brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider...man, full of warm, speculative benevolence, may wish bis society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true politican, always... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - Broj stranica: 604
...it in their paltry style of debating. But in this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. There is something else than the mere alternative...which he may scribble whatever he pleases. A man full 4( warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it ; but... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell - 1891 - Broj stranica: 868
...five, and twenty thousand men, carte blanche for the terms: GIBBON, Life & Lett., p. 238 (1869). 1790 I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself...blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases: BURKE, Rev. in France, p. 232 (3*rd Ed.). 1792 I will sign a carte blanche, insert the terms at your... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1924 - Broj stranica: 1276
...of good, in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. . . . I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself...blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. We are here reminded of the saying of Dumont, the friend of Mirabeau, that the fear of being thought... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1971 - Broj stranica: 264
...of political life as if human existence were not already organized according to rules and laws.12 ' I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself...blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.' 1S Burke sees in Rousseau the intellectual father of the French Revolution." In his writings, he says,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - Broj stranica: 550
...choice? France."— The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 1, p. 149 (1892). 344 I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself...blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. 345 "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate... | |
 | Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - Broj stranica: 138
...(1955, 99). Burke (1955) was opposed to radical or wholesale reform and argued that a man could not "consider his country as nothing but carte blanche...— upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases" but rather should consider "how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country" (181).... | |
 | Mark Tunick - 1998 - Broj stranica: 268
...metaphysical abstraction."5 For Burke it is arrogant and presumptuous for a theorist or politician to consider his country "as nothing but carte blanche...upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases." A good politician, rather, "always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of... | |
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. 
