 | Frederick Charles Dietz - 1927 - 812 pages
...out of the course of nature; a wild attempt to methodize anarchy." "Our political system," he wrote, "is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with...stupendous wisdom moulding together the great mysterious corporation of the human race, the whole at any one time is never old, or middle aged, or young; but... | |
 | John Maxcy Zane - 1927 - 540 pages
...description of such a social organization is Burke's superb phrase that any particular human society "is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with...wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, the whole, at one time, is never old or middle-aged or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy,... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...fortune, the gifts of Providence are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the 2l world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts:... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 pages
...Revolution in France, another confounding characteristic of natural order philosophy shows itself: "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts." That nature is the true blueprint, note in his Letters on a Regicide Peace that "constitutions furnish... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 pages
...Works, n, 454-55. 69 Works, v, 132. 70 Works, I, 313; II, 397, 399. 71 Works, III, 114. nature," is "in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world." He calls it "a permanent body composed of transitory parts," and he compares it to the whole of the... | |
 | R. J. Smith - 2002 - 252 pages
...facility for both was among the virtues of an inherited constitution.102 For such a constitution was in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order...permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein ... the whole is never old, or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy,... | |
 | Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 pages
...fortune, the gifts of providence, are handed down to us, and from us, in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts. . . . Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state ... we are never wholly... | |
 | James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - 1991 - 448 pages
...fortune, the gifts of providence are handed down to us, and from us, in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world as with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts, wherein, by... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 pages
...notwithstanding, a new character and may have the advantage of change without the imputation of inconstancy.40 Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, . . . wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation... | |
 | Robert Devigne - 1996 - 292 pages
...nation; therefore, the state is not required to generate substantive principles of social justice. "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts," wrote Burke. "Wherin, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious... | |
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Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts... 
