| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 strani
...in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection ; but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a...contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be... | |
| Thomas Hare - 1859 - 412 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1864 - 588 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1865 - 340 strani
...Christian philosopher of modern times — Edmund Burke — in his book on the French Revolution : " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. * * * Among these wants is to be reckoned the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. * * * The restraints on men... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 586 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Amongst these wants is to... | |
| R. J. Michael - 1867 - 322 strani
...united to the logic of facts and figures. CHAPTER II. ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. . . . Borne, under her emperors,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be... | |
| 1871 - 630 strani
...prayers, hii last resource." Ibid. " I'll rind a thousand shifts to get away." — Kh(ike$i>ei.ire. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." — Burke. EXPEDIENT. FIT. EXPEDIENCY (see EXPEDIENT) is a kind of FITNESS (connected with the old... | |
| 1872 - 396 strani
...we can show the same two classes of ideas exist, and constitute respective parties. Burke says — " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." Now the same may be said,... | |
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