... they too have their anti-philosophers, who find an interest in keeping things in their present state, who dread reformation, and exert all their faculties to maintain the ascendency of habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. The Echo: With Other Poems - Page 164by Richard Alsop, Theodore Dwight - 1807 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1805 - 536 pages
...the action and counter-action of good sense and uf bigotry. They too have their anti-philosophists, who find an interest in keeping things in their present...reformation, and exert all their faculties to maintain the ascendancy of habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. In giving these... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1806 - 528 pages
...their present state ; who dread reformation, and exert all their f.iculties to maintain the^scendancy of habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. In giving these outlines, I do not mean, to arrĂ³gatelo myself the merit of measures. That is due,... | |
| History - 1807 - 1012 pages
...seen the action and counter-action of good sense and of bigotry. They too have their anti-philosophic, who find an interest in keeping things in their present...of improving our reason, and obeying its mandates. In giving these out' lines, I do not mean to arrogate to myself the merit of measures. That is due,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...the action and counter-action of good sense and of bigotry. Thej toQ have their anti-philosophists, who find an interest in keeping things in their present...faculties to maintain the ascendency of habit over the duly of improving our reason, and obeying its mandates. In giving these oatlines, I do not mean to... | |
| United States - 1814 - 532 pages
...friends, among them also is seen the aetion and eounteraetion of good sense and of bigotry; they too have their anti-philosophers, who find an interest in keeping...state, who dread reformation, and exert all their faeulties to maintain the aseendeney of habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 548 pages
...friends, among them is seen the action and counteraction of good sense and bigotry ; they too have their anti-philosophers, who find an interest in keeping...of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. In giving these outlines, I do not mean, fellow-citizens, to arrogate to myself the merit of the measures... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 528 pages
...friends, among them is seen the action and counteraction of good sense and bigotry ; they too have their anti-philosophers, who find an interest in keeping...of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. In giving these outlines, I do not mean, fellow-citizens, to arrogate to, myself the merit of the measures... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 528 pages
...my friends, among them is seen the action and counteraction of good sense and bigotry; they too have their anti-philosophers, who find an interest in keeping...exert all their faculties to maintain the ascendency ef habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. In giving these outlines,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - Legislative journals - 1828 - 604 pages
...the action and counteraction of good sense and of bigotry. They, too, have their anti-philosophists, who find an interest in keeping things in their present...reformation, and exert all their faculties to maintain the ascendancy of habit over the duty of improving our reason, and obeying its mandates. In .giving these... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...friends, among them is seen the action and counteraction of good sense and bigotry ; they too, have their antiphilosophers, who find an interest in keeping...of improving our reason and obeying its mandates." The other exception abovementioned, 11i which new principles were advanced. regarded the appropriation... | |
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