 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...of growth. Whenever we improve, it is right to leave room for a further improvement. It is right 1:0 consider, to look about us, to examine the effect...intelligence. Whereas in hot reformations, in what mer more zealous than considerate call making dear work, the whole is generally so crude, so harsh,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1834 - 566 pages
...principle of growth. When' ever we improve, it is right to leave room for a further improve* ment. It is right to consider, to look about us, to examine...effect of what we have done. Then we can proceed with con' fidence, because we can proceed with intelligence.' ' In my opinion, it is our duty, when we have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 pages
...about us, to examine the effecl: of what we have done. — Then we can proceed with confidence, becaufe we can proceed with intelligence. Whereas in hot reformations, in what men, more zealous than confiderate, call making clear work, the whole is generally fo crude, fo harm, fo indigefted ; mixed... | |
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But as it is the interest of government that reformation should be early, it is the interest of the people that it should be temperate. It is their interest, because a temperate reform is permanent ; and because it has a principle of growth. Whenever... 
