 ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians,...  Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature - Page 116by Thomas Green - 1810 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, * See the fate of Bailly and Condoroet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...state may stand •without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, * See the fate of Bnil'y and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ? I wish you may not... | |
 | 1811 - 334 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ! " 1 wish you may... | |
 | France - 1811 - 338 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter ! " I wish " I wish... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and, at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter? 1 wish you may not... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a, thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, •* See the fate of Bailly and Condorcet, supposed to be here particularly alluded to. Compare the... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and, at the same time,...sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter? I wish you may not... | |
 | William Clarke Somerville - 1822 - 408 pages
...she was going fast, and by the shortest cut, to that horrible and disgusting situation of a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and (at the same time,) poor and sordid barbarians.'^ Yet, after waging war for five and twenty years against successive coalitions of all the powers of... | |
 | William Clarke Somerville - France - 1822 - 412 pages
...she was going fast, and by tlie shortest cut, to that horrible and disgusting situation of a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and (at the same time,) poor and sordid barbarians."t Yet, after waging war for five and twenty years against successive coalitions of all... | |
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