 | G.A. Natesan - 1922 - 982 páginas
...dismissed the thought of leaving India : ' There we are ; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer ; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty.' ANCIENT SOUTH INDIAN POLITY BY TR SESHA IYENGAR, MA, MRA-S., FR HIST. S. IT would be impossible within... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are ; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer ; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty. The whole of Burke, or Burke at his best, is there : the doctrine of expediency, of making the best... | |
 | Ishwara Topa - 1928 - 200 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are: There we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer, and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty".3) He thought that it was a duty, sacred and divine, imposed by the Divine Will on the English... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - 1996 - 646 páginas
...pontificated: the English are placed in India "by the Sovereign Disposer, and we must do the Iiest we can with our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty." Burke wanted profit for Englishmen without oppression to the Indians. Few at the time would have agreed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty. . . . Such an universal proscription, upon any pretence, has few examples. Such a proscription, without... | |
 | Betsy Bolton - 2001 - 298 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer: and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty."4- The distance separating this chivalric view of history from farce is slight indeed. Half a... | |
 | Margery Sabin - 2002 - 256 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty" (5:404). As suggested at the outset, these famous sentences enjoyed more than their due reverence from... | |
 | Jennifer Pitts - 2009 - 400 páginas
...attempting to govern India at all. But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty" (WS 5:404). Both supporters of the British empire and more recent critics have read this passage as... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 páginas
...Speech on Fox's India Bill (1783): "But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer: and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty."43 If the situation of man is indeed "the preceptor" of his duty — notice that Burke extols... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...attempting to govern India at: all. But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty. . . . Such an universal proscription, upon any pretence, has few examples. Such a proscription, without... | |
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But there we are ; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer ; and we must do the best we can in our situation. The situation of man is the preceptor of his duty. 
