On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by... The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes - Page 99de Edmund Burke - 1839Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Nigel Jonathan Spivey - 2001 - 280 pages
...concentration camp') with 'the Terror' of the Revolutionaries. ('In the groves of their academy,' wrote Burke, 'at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.') But suppose we lay aside, for a moment, our normal distaste for Sade's person and prose. Would we admit... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 pages
...and opinions perish; and will find other and worse means for its support." Under such crude power, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrors,...can spare to them from his own private interests." 95 In view of the ruthless spirit of Napoleon's power politics and of nineteenth-century economic utilitarianism,... | |
| Richard Brookhiser - 2008 - 288 pages
...Burke warned, could maintain order only by calculation and force. "In the groves" of the Revolution "at the end of every vist[a], you see nothing but the gallows."" Three months later, Burke was answered by Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. Paine set his plain speech,... | |
| Roland Axtmann - 2003 - 356 pages
...and private. When Edmund Burke attacked the philosophy of the French revolutionaries he argued that in the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, one caught a glimpse of the gallows. In the groves of the new radical postmodern academy conservatism... | |
| Stephen Regan - 2004 - 628 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of... | |
| George Walker - 2004 - 396 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of... | |
| Benjamin R. Barber - 2003 - 242 pages
...terrorist sanctions by which the Jacobins tried to impose their religion of reason on France in 1789, "in the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows."" The revolution made by the guillotine turned out to be a poor substitute for democracy. The owls would... | |
| Thomas F. Burke - 2002 - 282 pages
...17-36. 34. Kehnan quotes Edmund Burke's famous remark ahout this dark side of liberal philosophers: "In the groves of their academy ... at the end of every vista you see nothing but the gallows" (Kehnan, Regulating America, Regulating Sweden: A Comparative Study of Occupational Safety and Health... | |
| Peter Viereck - 200 pages
...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. . . . Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 2005 - 637 pages
...understandings," exclaimed the great English liberal, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrours. ... In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows." s Burke's extravagant rhetoric, although reprinted in America, was little heeded. It would have been... | |
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