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" ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility... "
The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion - Page 421
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man...to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again...
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Reactions to Revolutions: The 1790s and Their Aftermath

Ulrich Broich - History - 2007 - 346 pages
...and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man...to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or building it up again,...
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Safire's Political Dictionary

William Safire - Political Science - 2008 - 888 pages
...of new forces into venerable institutions. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France he wrote: "It is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again...
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Reflections on the French Revolution

Edmund Burke - France - 1955 - 384 pages
...and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man...to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again,...
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The Vassar Miscellany, Volume 42

Universities and colleges - 1912 - 476 pages
...matter which requires experience and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purpose of society." "They who destroy everything...
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Essays in Law and History

Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1995 - 334 pages
...1 1 1. 3 Printed in Holdsworth, HEL vol. v, App. III. 4 At p. 504. with infinite caution', he said, 'that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society.'1 Lawyers can still give...
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