 | Josiah Tucker - 1775 - 68 pages
...that nothing exifts but TO EDMUND BURKE, Esq. tf ** what is grofs and material; and who there** fore, far from being qualified to be Directors *' of the...Empire, are not " fit to turn a Wheel 'in the Machine." Now, Mr. Director of the great Movement \ of Empire! Will-you permit (and it is the n only Boon I afk)... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...mechanical politicians, who have no place among us 5 a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...from being qualified to be directors of the great rhovement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel In the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1815 - 642 pages
...affection of a people, in order to fortify a line of military posts. To such statesmen I will apply in the words of the great philosophical orator, who so...qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, nre not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...obedience, without which our army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be the directors of the great movements of empires, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and...be directors of the great movement of empire, are uot fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...resolution the previous question was put, and carried; for the previou* question 270, against it 78. All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechancial politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nothing exists... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...vulgar and mechancial politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nothir.g exists but what is gross and material; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be direc tort of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...know well enough, will sound wile and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechancial politicians, who have no place among us; a sort of people who think that nolliir.f exists but what is gross and material; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...apply the words of the great philosophical orator, who so long vainly laboured to inculcate wisdom ia this House :— ' All this, I know well enough, will...empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. Rut to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which in the opinion... | |
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All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore,... 
