 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 392 Seiten
...wisdom moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, full of renovation and progression. . . . The awful Author of our being... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a...perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. — BURKE. We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 Seiten
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a...renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the m<thod jf nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are neTer wholly new ; in what... | |
 | John Alexander Steuart - 1898 - 434 Seiten
...so moulded together "the great mysterious corporations of the human race that the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition...moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay full of renovation and progression." He glanced in the passing at Egypt, at Palestine, at Greece, at... | |
 | 1900 - 570 Seiten
...middleaged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what wi retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner, and on those principles, to our... | |
 | David Loyd Pulliam - 1901 - 188 Seiten
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wnolly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on these principles to our forefathers, we are guided... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 608 Seiten
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition...new, in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete,' and it has been ' our old settled maxim never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity.' Old local... | |
 | George Unwin - 1904 - 308 Seiten
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression.' However admirable for practical purposes may be the stability ensured by this method, there can be... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 Seiten
...further improvement. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. In what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." "What is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 Seiten
...human race ' of which the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.' 2 The Royalist of 1660 might well think that he held an incontrovertible and inexpugnable position.... | |
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... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged,... 
