 Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour...  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly - Pagina 115door Edmund Burke - 1791 - 74 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George Rous - 1791 - 150 pagina’s
...more fortunate in the authorities to which he refers. Who can diflent from his eulogy on the Prefident Montefquieu ? " * Think of a genius not " born in...penetrating ** aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared " by the moft extenfive erudition ; with " an Herculean robuftnefs of mind, and ** nerves not to be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pagina’s
...upon this invaluable whole. Place, for inftance, before your eyes, fuch a man as Mbntefquieu. l;hink of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man not gifted by na// ture with a penetrating tquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the moft extenfive... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1794 - 466 pagina’s
...more fortunate in the authorities to which he refers. Who can diflent from his eulogy on the Prefident Montefquieu ? " * Think of a genius not '* born in...penetrating " aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared " by .the moft extenfive erudition ; with *' an Herculean robuftnefs of mind, and ** nerves not to... | |
 | 1795 - 688 pagina’s
...ages, upon this invaluable whole. Place, for inftance, before 7001 eyes, fut ha man as Montefquien. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every...aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the moft extenlive eradition; with an herculean roboftnefs of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pagina’s
...tyranny in fome form or other. — —Letter to a Mem~ i>er of the National AJJ'embly* MONTESQUIE.U. PLACE, for inftance, before your eyes, fuch a man...aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the moft exteafive erudition; with an Herculean robuftnefs of mind, and nerves hot to be broken with labour;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pagina’s
...and ftability through ages, upon this invaluable whole. Place, for inftance, before your eyes, foch a man as Montefquieu. Think of a genius not born in...and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who £ould fpend twenty years in one purfuit. Think ,pf a man, like the univerfal patriarch in Milton S... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pagina’s
...gracious and drincelv. MONTESQUIEU. PLACE, for instance, before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every...penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pagina’s
...ages, upon this invaluable whole. Place, for instance, before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man girted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 402 pagina’s
...ages, upon this invaluable whole. Place, for instance, before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every...penetrating aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and, nerves not to be broken with... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pagina’s
...gracious and princely. MONTESQUIEU. PLACE, for instance, before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every...penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour... | |
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