...corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude' (1998: 146). Despite the patrician sentimentality and special pleading of many passages of rhetoric...

...beyond dispute. For was it not Burke who had urged men to 'approach the faults of 15 Hntbf. I- u. 98-9. the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude'?16 A letter Gibbon wrote to his aunt Hester at the time of his father's death is relevant...

...of beginning irs reformation by irs subversion; that he should approach to the faulrs of the srare as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude' (1998: 146). Despire the pattician sentimenraliry and special pleading of many passages of thetotic...

...was particularly evident when Burke considered the weaknesses of the state. He believed that citizens "should approach to the faults of the state as to...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." 41 Burke's feeling of "filial reverence" toward the state was no mere ornamental figure of speech....

...that the state itself became seen as a kind of father. We should, Burke writes in the Reflections, "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." He adds, with obvious reference not merely to France but to the antiaristocratic radicals in London...

...corruptions but with due caution, that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." Even though the Terror in France was state terror, it was Edmund Burke who bequeathed us the definition...

...political flourishing at the macrocosmic level. Submission to power ensured that would-be reformers "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." Similarly, the submission (to the point of invisibility) of women in the public sphere was learned...

...corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent io pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild...

...corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent io pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisoiioas weeds and wild...

...corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horrour on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces,...