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" 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 409
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 496 pages
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Merchant of Venice: With Introd., and Notes [explanatory and Critical, for ...

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 216 pages
...young man : " We are taught to look with horror on the children of their country, who are rashly prompt to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle oT magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations they may regenerate the...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 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. 30 Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts,...
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Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1892 - 220 pages
...young man: " We are taught to look with horror on the children of their country, who are rashly prompt to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into...wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life."—Kefteclions, &c. Loren. In such a night Did Jessica...
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Selections from Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 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 rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and 5 put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations,...
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Transactions, Volume 17

Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 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 rashly to hack their aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in the hope that by their poisonous...
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The Times and Young Men

Josiah Strong - Conduct of life - 1901 - 332 pages
...one of Burke's comment on the French revolutionists. "We are taught," he says, " 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." The only hope of social health lies in obedience to...
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Writings and Speeches, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 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 rashly to hac.k that agod parent in pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poitiouous weeds...
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The Evolution of Modern Liberty

George Lawrence Scherger - Liberty - 1904 - 324 pages
...might be torn up at any moment and replaced by a more suitable substructure. He looks "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." 2 He censures French politicians and writers for their...
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The French Revolution: Chapters from the Author's History of England During ...

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - France - 1904 - 616 pages
...with horror on those children of their country who are prompted rashly to hack that aged parent to pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians, in...wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution.' ' You see, sir,' he continues, ' that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess...
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Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and Liberty

T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...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 rashly to " hack that aged parent to pieces and put him into " the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their " poisonous weeds and...
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