 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 strani
...clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their 10 practical defect. By having a right to every thing...every thing. Government is a contrivance of human jwisdpm ^ to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 strani
...with prayers, hi« last resource." Ibid. " I'll find a thousand shifts toget away." —SHAKESPEARE. " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." — BURKK. EXPEDIENT. FIT. EXPEDIENCY (see EXPEDIENT) is a kind of FITNESS (O. Fr. J'aie t , fait,... | |
 | 1892 - 812 strani
...globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing UL Sir W. Jones. Vers. 14, 15. King over thee. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Burke.) Horses. For stateliness and majesty what is comparable to a horse ? — Sir T. More. Vers.... | |
 | 1894 - 232 strani
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything ' men ' want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.'* For its own benefit, therefore, human society is obliged to sanction and protect the institution of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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... | |
 | United States. Strike Commission - 1895 - 744 strani
...Writer offers no specifically defined plan for correction of labor troubles, asserts generally that as "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" (Burke) we ought to look to the Government for the elimination of social evils and exert all our strength... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 strani
...from their homes." Edmund Burke, one of the wisest political philosophers of any age, has said that 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society,, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 strani
...abstract 5 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 10 is to... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 strani
...Government is not made in virtue of natural " rights, which may and do exist in total indepen" dence of it. Government is a contrivance of " human wisdom to provide for human wants." To obtain this main end of government—justice— in a highly complex society, it was necessary, in... | |
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Government is a con.trivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
