 Company in the pressing exigencies of their affairs ; that thus a relief to the Company's affairs might be yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 351by Edmund Burke - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1827 - 608 pages
...yielded, which in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...in its practice excellent. Here a thing in theory, stated by Mr. Hastings to be productive of much good, is in reality productive of all those horrible... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 640 pages
...yielded, which in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...in its practice excellent. Here a thing in theory, stated by Mr. Hastings to be productive of much good, is in reality productive of all those horrible... | |
 | Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - Governors general - 1857 - 522 pages
...yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...in its practice excellent. Here a thing in theory, stated by Mr. Hastings to be productive of much good, is in reality productive of all those horrible... | |
 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1859 - 816 pages
...yielded, which, in the common, ostensible, mode, and under the ordinary forms of government and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with him became a supplement to exaction. My Lords, I have thought it necessary, and absolutely necessary it is, to state what the consequence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 556 pages
...the practical mischiefs, that it produces; hecause a thing may look specious in theory, and yet he ruinous in practice ; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet he in its practice excellent. Нere a thing in theory, stated hy Mr. Hastings to he productive of much... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 550 pages
...yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in nractice ; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in its practice excellent, Here a thing in theory,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 500 pages
...yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...in its practice excellent. Here a thing in theory, stated by Mr. Hastings to be productive of much good, is in reality productive of all those horrible... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 448 pages
...yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with...in its practice excellent. Here a thing in theory, stated by Mr. Hastings to be productive of much good, is in reality productive of all those horrible... | |
 | Hugh McKenna - Nursing - 1997 - 296 pages
...theory complexity, we should take cognisance of the words of the Irish orator Edmund Burke (1729-97): 'A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice - a thing may look evil in theory, yet in practice be excellent.' Origins of the theory: if a theory has its basis in the 'know how' of... | |
 | Philip Jenks, Stephen Eckett - Business & Economics - 2002 - 514 pages
...undertaken as soon as possible. 12. "Specious in theory, yet ruinous in practice." Edmund Burke wrote, "a thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous...practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet in practice be excellent". In other words, experience teaches one to avoid the recommendations of others,... | |
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