 Europe, we are to let your lordships know, that these gentlemen have formed a plan of geographical morality, by which the duties of men, in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the universe,...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 104by Edmund Burke - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 558 pages
...hut hy chmates, degrees of longitude, parallels not of life hut of latitudes ; as if, when you hare crossed the equinoctial, all the virtues die, as they...when they cross the line ; as if there were a kind of haptism, like that practised hy seamen, hy which they unhaptixe themselves of all, that they learned... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 562 pages
...gentlemen have formed a plan of geographical morality bv which the duties of men, in public and in . ч 'fe situations, are not to be governed by their relation...their relation to mankind, but by climates, degrees oflongitude, parallels not of life but of ¡atitudes ; as if, when you have crossed the equinoctial,... | |
 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1859 - 816 pages
...of the universe, or by their relations to men, but by climates, degrees of longitude and latitude, parallels not of life but of latitudes ; as if, when you have crossed the equinoctial line, all the virtues die, as they say some animals die when they cross the line; as if there were... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 556 pages
...universe, or hy their relation to mankind, hut hy climates, degrees of longitude, parallels not of life hut of latitudes ; as if, when you have crossed the equinoctial,...when they cross the line ; as if there were a kind of haptism, like that practised hy seamen, hy which they unhaptize themselves of all, that they learned... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the universe, or by their relation to mankind, but by climates, degrees of loqgiludc, parallels not of life but of latitudes; as if, when you have crossed the equinoctial, all... | |
 | George Harris - Ethics - 1896 - 468 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the universe, or by their relation to mankind,...longitude, — parallels, not of life, but of latitudes." 1 These facts are not now interpreted to mean that moral sentiments have no basis in the nature of... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 500 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the universe, or by their relation to mankind,...line; as if there were a kind of baptism, like that practiced by seamen, by which they unbaptize themselves of all that they learned in Europe, and after... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 448 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the universe, or by their relation to mankind,...line; as if there were a kind of baptism, like that practiced by seamen, by which they unbaptize themselves of all that they learned in Europe, and after... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the Universe, or by their relation to mankind,...degrees of longitude, parallels, not of life, but of latitude." He asserted instead that the "laws of morality are the same everywhere, and that there is... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 104 pages
...in public and in private situations, are not to be governed by their relation to the great Governor of the Universe, or by their relation to mankind,...longitude, parallels, not of life, but of latitudes. . . ,"26 Nor could Hastings be defended on the pretext that he possessed an arbitrary power conferred... | |
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