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" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to... "
The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 245
by Edmund Burke - 1834
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5

1775 - 868 pages
...even the whole of it together. I could eafily, if I had not already tired you, give you very ftriking and convincing instances of it. This is nothing but...benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent ail, is founded on compromife and barter. We balance iuconvenlenciej : we give and take ; we remit...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...together. I could eafily, if 1 had not already tired you, give you very ftriking and convincing inftances of it. This is nothing but what is natural and proper....every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromife and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit fome rights, that we...
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An Address to the Lately Formed Society of the Friends of the People

John Wilde - France - 1793 - 688 pages
...fupport any given part of our " conftitution, or eren the whole of it together. Tliis is no" thing but what is natural and proper. All Government, "...every virtue, " and every prudent act, is founded on compromife and barter. " We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit " fome rights that...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...vigour as there is liberty in it. BURKE. Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol, p. 56, 7, 8. ALL government is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences...take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others. — But in all fair dealings, the thing bought must bear some proportion to the purchase paid. None...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...together. I could eafily, if I had not already tired you, give you very ftriking and convincing inftances of it. This is nothing but what is natural and proper....every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromife and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit fome rights, that we...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse...
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had oot already tired you, give you very striking and convincing...remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants. As we must give away some natural liberty,...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give...act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniencies ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others ; and, we chuse...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not already tired you, give...convincing instances of it. This is nothing but what K natural and proper. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every...
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