 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 páginas
...said, " who think that the people are never wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, in other countries and in this But I do say that in...their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par." To press this presumption against all odds was the aim of Burke. He was not at all in favor of a pure... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1888 - 312 páginas
...feel. We could never imagine Carlyle saying, as Burke did, that "in all disputes between the people and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people ; " or that " he could scarcely conceive any choice the people could make to be so very mischievous,... | |
 | Ram Gopal Sanyal - 1889 - 210 páginas
...Mutiny what Burke has magniloquently said " that in all disputes between the people and their rulejs the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people." That the general body of the people of India had nothing to do with these insurgents-' revolutionary... | |
 | Francis William Bain - 1891 - 258 páginas
...with the same great authority whose language we have borrowed, that in all disputes between the people and their rulers the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people. But in his attempts to strike a balance between the extremes of opposing factions, he incurred that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1893 - 68 páginas
...omission is of any length, we shall, as here, give in our own words the gist of the omitted pages. this. But I do say that in all disputes between them...their rulers the presumption is at least upon a par in favor of the people. Experience may perhaps justify me in going further. When popular discontents have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 páginas
...grievances. In happier moods Burke had laid down the maxim that " in all disputes between the people and their rulers the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people." In enforcing which he had sought support from the famous passage in the " Memoirs " of Sully, the minister... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 138 páginas
...select their own candidate was denied. Burke championed the cause of the injured people, and asserted that " in all disputes between them and their rulers the presumption is at least upon a par in favor of the people." He taunted the government with ignorance, " both of how to yield and how to enforce,"... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 524 páginas
...defraud " its employers " ; the people are its " natural lords " ; in all disputes between the people and their rulers " the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people," show him to have had popular sympathies at heart. And his political conduct was in harmony with these... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1896 - 256 páginas
...3722. Against the superior. Cf. Burke's 'Present Discontents : — "In all disputes between the people and their rulers the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people. Experience may perhaps justify me in going further. When popular discontents have been very prevalent,... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 páginas
...corrective of folly and ignorance. I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously,...presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people. Experience may perhaps justify me in going further. When popular discontents have been very prevalent;... | |
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers the presumption is at least upon... 
