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" Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume. "
The Saturday Magazine - Página 90
1835
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William Wordsworth: A Life

Stephen Gill - 1989 - 576 páginas
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Equality, Tolerance, and Loyalty: Virtues Serving the Common Purpose of ...

Andrew R. Cecil - 1990 - 232 páginas
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Clergy Ethics in a Changing Society: Mapping the Terrain

James P. Wind - 1991 - 308 páginas
...liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. . . . Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are...inexperienced in all its affairs — on which they [clergymen] pronounce with so much confidence — they have nothing of politics but the passions they...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character...character they leave and of the character they assume. EDMUND BURKE, "Reflections on the Revolution in France," 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund...
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Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth ...

Alvaro Ribeiro, James G. Basker - 1996 - 378 páginas
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The Enlightenment

David Williams - 1999 - 534 páginas
...charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character...inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce • 511 • with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite. Surely...
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Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional

William F. May - 2001 - 300 páginas
...civil liberty and civil religion gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. . . . Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are...inexperienced in all its affairs — on which they [clergymen] pronounce with such confidence — they have nothing of politics but the passions they...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke, Alan Wolfe, Darrin M. McMahon, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Jack N. Rakove - 2003 - 369 páginas
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The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics

Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 2003 - 284 páginas
...Christian politicians" and their "pious designs," speaking with dismay of "apostolic missionaries" who had "quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them" by "dogmatically" asserting a "political gospel" composed of "abstract principle." These men are, he...
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The American Heritage College Thesaurus

2004 - 932 páginas
...indiscreetly in the affairs of others. Meddle stresses unwanted, unwarranted, or unnecessary intrusion: "wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling" (Edmund Burkel. Interfere implies action that seriously hampers, hinders, or frustrates: "Romantics...
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