| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered too,... | |
| John Bristed - 1811 - 556 pages
...hesitate to say, that the road to eminence- and power from obscure condition ought not to be made loo easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit...honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried, but by some difficulty... | |
| John Bristed - 1811 - 554 pages
...hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power from obscure condition ought not to be made too cosy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the...honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered too, that virtue is never tried, but by some difficulty... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...to the duty. 1 do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that... | |
| Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pages
...to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through V virtue, let it be remembered too,... | |
| 1821 - 362 pages
...say, that the road tu eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, jior a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...and unbutton another? — Sterne. DCCCLXXV1I. The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...and unbutton another? — Sterne. DCCCLXXVIL The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...thii. tfcuon. The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, mor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare ihings, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, tainly ; neither has the poet said a single word which...phantom, which ho intended to represent in all the ho honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered too,... | |
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