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. Edmund Burke - Página xvieditado por - 129 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| 1864 - 536 páginas
...not, it seems as if it ought not to be so. " Government," says Burke (to go back to Burke again), " is a contrivance of human " wisdom to provide for human wants. " Men have a riglxt that these wants " should be.provided for by this v/isdom." We are a free people, we have made... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 604 páginas
...human wants. Men have a right that these wants I should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these I wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the... | |
| Francis Fulford - 1865 - 340 páginas
...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. *... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Amongst these wants is to be reckoned the want out of civil society of a sufficient restraint upon... | |
| R. J. Michael - 1867 - 322 páginas
...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...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. . . . Borne, under her emperors, united the evils inevitably attendant on the dominion of despotism... | |
| 1871 - 630 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." Now the same may be said, and is said, of medical schools. Medical schools are a contrivance of human... | |
| Thomas Hare - 1873 - 442 páginas
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the... | |
| United States. Congress - 750 páginas
...Nation from communism and the hell of Hooverlsm. By Mr. Roosevelt's recognition of the principle that "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," he cured many of the causes of communism, and while it may not be dead In America, it can never attain... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human mints. Men have a right that these wanti should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that too passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the... | |
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