...confined views" (119). "Our political system [inasmuch as it is historically founded and developed] is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world." What should we conclude? That all the French have made of their revolution is against the spirit of...

...pattern of nature', for 'we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives'. It is this form of historical rationality which the common law can preserve against the disruptive...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives," he wrote. "The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down,...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.'' Paine, however, in The Rights of Man, dismissed monarchy as no more than a 'silly thing', and the doctrine...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives." To Paine, the arch-rationalist with his fondness for depicting ahistorical states of nature and original...

...between the structure of the family and the structure of the British government, claiming that Britain's political system 'is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and that 'we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution...

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives." 85 Because of "this happy effect of following nature," Burke always felt that any unjust statute passed...

...after the partem of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.'8 ui France, ed. with aurod. Connor Cruiie O'Brien (Hannondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, i968)....

...after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.58 The disaster approaching in France he blamed on "the shallow speculations of the petulant,...

...precedent.182 All in all, the English constitution, according to Burke, was in 'harmony' with nature, 'placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world', perfected by the 'disposition of stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...