 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pàgines
...setting out. — Circa vilem patulumque morabimttr orbem, Unde pudor proferre pedem vetat aid operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pàgines
...fetting out. — — Circa vilem patulumque morahimur orbem, Unde pudor prof err e pedem vet at aut open's lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it feems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of w-hich it ought to be confidered as the refult.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pàgines
...our fetting out. Circa vilem patulumque morahhnur orhem, Unde pudor prof err e pedem vetat aut operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it feems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be confidered as the refult.... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pàgines
...fetting out. Circa I'll, m palulumgui moralimur ortem, Unde pailor profcrrc pedem vet at out opens lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it feems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be confidered as the refult.... | |
 | John Overton - 1802 - 436 pàgines
...religious-fubjects, which fome pcrlbus would infinuate. " A Definition," as the admired Burke obferves, " may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way...informing us of the nature of- the thing defined '." But the worft is, what is called a definition, is often neither a true reprefentation of the thing defined,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pàgines
...out. , *"* — Circa "vllem patulumque morabimur orbem, Unde pudor prefer re pedem vet at aut operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what it will, in the order of things, it feems ratlier to follow than to precede our mquiry, of which it ought to be confidered as the refult.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pàgines
...QT out. o • Circa vi/em patulumque morabimur orbem, Unde pudor proferre pedem -vetat aut op er is lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...definition be what. it will, in the order of things, VOL. I. H it it feems rather to follow than to precede our in- . quiry, of which it ought to be confidered... | |
 | David Irving - 1803 - 266 pàgines
...properly belongs, the ambiguity is re•Bioved, and thefe members ate kept diftinct from each other. Let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order ef things, it feems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be confidered... | |
 | 1803 - 466 pàgines
...with the lublimities of oratory, tkan the accuracy of reasoning) ' may be very exail, and yet go but a little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.' It is not the deiign or the purpofe of definitions to inform us of the nature of things. This is the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pàgines
...our setting out. Circa vilem patulumque morabimur orbem, Untie pudor proferre pedem velat out operis lex. A definition may be very exact, and yet go but...towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES. GREAT discontents frequently arise in the best-constituted governments, from... | |
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined ; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry,... 
