We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire : and have made the most... The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - 第 249 頁Edmund Burke 著 - 1834完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 頁
...ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying,...wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. English privileges have made it all that it is ; English privileges alone will make it all it can be.... | |
| Arthur Sidgwick - 1889 - 186 頁
...not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, and the happiness of the human race. 6. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. 1. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 頁
...in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great Empire and little minds go ill together. Let us get an American revenue, as we have got an...English privileges alone will make it all it can be! ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. EARL OF CHATHAM. I CANNOT, my lords, I will not, join in congratulation... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 頁
...ancestors have turned a savage wil30 derness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. 5 In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sit :) lay the first stone... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1892 - 294 頁
...ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. G 2 In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sit) lay the first stone... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 頁
...savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. THE DECAY OF CHIVALROUS SENTIMENT1 IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France,... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sir John Robert Seeley - 1893 - 344 頁
...savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be." 155. Didactic Composition. — As oratory occupies itself with the matters that are occupying the minds... | |
| Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 頁
...into a 'glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests — not 10 by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. 15 In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now, quod felix faustumque sit, lay the first stone... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 頁
...into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests — not 10 by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. 15 In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now, quod felix faustumque sit, lay the first stone... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 頁
...ancestors have turned a savage wil30 derness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying,...In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sit1) lay the first stone of the temple of peace ; and I move you, "That the... | |
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