 By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations,...  Essays on Professional Education - Page 409by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Rathbone Greg - Political science - 1853 - 610 pages
...guilt which failure will cast upon them. Like the daughters of Pelias, they unscrupulously " hack their aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life." Few men ever lived so well entitled as Burke to try... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1854 - 342 pages
...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who arc prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces,...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life."50 This, however, being an instance of what may be... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - Great Britain - 1854 - 660 pages
...Burke says, " We are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of the magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - Great Britain - 1854 - 662 pages
...Burke says, " We are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of the magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life. *- ^Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1855 - 560 pages
...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life." * This, however, being an instance of what may be... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 556 pages
...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we arc taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt...put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that hy their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and... | |
 | Edward Thomson - Christian biography - 1857 - 408 pages
...in fire rather than renounce his creed ; but he had no sympathy "with those children of the Church who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in...pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hope, that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion ; that ho should approach ahours and writings have done much to open the eyes...the sumptuousness of palaces, or the •tateliness and*put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by then* poisonous weeds, and wild incantations,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1863 - 776 pages
...father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on 'those children of their country who are prompt...wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution and renovate their father's life. CBOAKING. — He that accuses all mankind of corruption,... | |
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