 | 1850 - 676 pages
...by collision with the wills of others. It is truly as well as beautifully said by Edmund Burke, that "in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
 | 1847 - 518 pages
...Burke — "The ideals of religion passing out of un regenerate minds into practical form, like the rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are,...the' gross and complicated mass of human passions and volitions, the primitive ideas of the reason undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1851 - 370 pages
...license is allowed in the employment of it. It is a remark of Aristotle, (Rhet. book iii. chap. 4.) that the Simile is more suitable in Poetry, and that...line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of hum;,u passions and concerns, the primitive rights of man undergo such a variety of refractions, and... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1852 - 372 pages
...license is allowed in the employment of it. It is a remark of Aristotle, (Rhet. book iii. chap. 4.) that the Simile is more suitable in Poetry, and that...rights of man undergo such a variety of refractions, arid reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 pages
...or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1855 - 632 pages
...or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. inconsistent with virtue, and ihe first of all virtues,...for their benefit; for though a pleasant writer sa greets and complicated mass of human passions and concerns , the primitive rights of men undergo such... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 586 pages
...or on building it up again without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...Nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in tho gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life,...human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
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These metaphysic rights entering into Common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns the primitive... 
