 The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state.  The Nineteenth Century - Strona 5201887Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - Liczba stron: 648
...court. This, I said, is equal in importance to the securing a government according to law. The laws piiidence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the use and potency of the AWS depends upon... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - Liczba stron: 728
...policies, cour\ This, I said, is equal in importance to the seig a government according to law. The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government...infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exerciBe ofThffpowers which areTeft at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - Liczba stron: 522
...Executive is the point to which all our reforming zeal should now be directed. " Laws (says Burke) reach but a very little way. Constitute government...please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend npon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1873 - Liczba stron: 520
...infinitely greater, more general, and more constant than statutory law can inflict. Burke says: "The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government...please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend on the exercise of the powers which are left at large, to the prudence and uprightness of ministers... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - Liczba stron: 236
...equals or superiors ; by a knowledg« of their temper, and by a judicious management of it The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - Liczba stron: 256
...equals or superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it. ... The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the... | |
 | 1883 - Liczba stron: 836
...equals or superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper and by a judicious management of it .... The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute Government...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers, which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - Liczba stron: 668
...temper, and knowing how to manage it judiciously. " The laws reach but a very little way," he had said; " constitute government how you please, infinitely the...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the... | |
 | 1892 - Liczba stron: 954
...in view of party triumph, personal ambition, or pecuniary gain. " The laws,'' said Edmund Burke, " reach but a very little way. Constitute government...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of State. Even all the... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1892 - Liczba stron: 522
...forgotten in view of party triumph, personal ambition, or pecuniary gain. " The laws," says Burke, " reach but a very little way. Constitute government...greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state. Even all the... | |
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