 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Страниц: 572
...ambition, it may not be amiss to take one precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our men power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded. It is ridiculous to say we are not men ; and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - Страниц: 638
...commerce of all other nations totally dependent upon our good pleasure, we may say that we shall not ahuse mighty state, which " pursuit, hut that which they can handle ; which they can measure wi ahuse it. It is impossihle hut that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a comhination... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1866 - Страниц: 494
...precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to tako one precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition ; I dread our being too much dreaded. It is ridiculous to say we are not men, and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves... | |
 | 1898 - Страниц: 642
...the least control, to hold the commerce of all other nations totally dependent on our good pleasure, we may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing...But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - Страниц: 276
...least control, to hold the commerce of all other nations totally dependent upon our good pleasure, we may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing,...But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - Страниц: 590
...precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power, and our own ambition ; I dread our being too much dreaded. It is ridiculous to say we are not men ; and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - Страниц: 540
...precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition ; I dread our being too much dreaded. It is ridiculous to say we are not men, and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - Страниц: 524
...precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition ; I dread our being too much dreaded. It is ridiculous to say we are not men, and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1992 - Страниц: 252
...are not men, and that, as men, we shall never wish to aggrandize ourselves in some way or other ... we may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner... | |
 | Francis Canavan - 1995 - Страниц: 212
...180), but Jacobinism, he recognized the danger of Britain's self-aggrandizement: "I must fairly say, I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded." Even Britain's commercial success made him uneasy: We are already in possession of almost all the commerce... | |
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded. 
