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| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. See NOBILITY.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...art — to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. See NOBILITY.... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...ingenuous art — To be amongst rich traders who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of... | |
| England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...ingenuous art ; to be amongst rich traders who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...justice ; — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. " The state of... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 566 pages
...and wealth are the rewards of those who, "for their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice," they are not more honoured now, not more identified with " respectability," than they have ever been... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...last is, " to be among rich traders, who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...who form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. Without this," (the writer intimates, in a few subsequent lines,)... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...art — To be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...art — To be amongst rich traders, who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. The state of... | |
| Scotland - 1832 - 1042 pages
...ingenuous art ; to be amongst rich traders who, from their success, are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...justice ; — these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation. " The state of... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...ingenuous art — To he among rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence,...constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an hahitual regard to commutative justice — These are the circumstances of men, that form what I should... | |
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