| Nicholas Guyatt - 2007 - 341 páginas
...which have so often been given from pulpits." According to Burke, the "institutions of policy" and the "gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order." While historical providentialism envisaged a progressive plan for human history, Burke argued for the... | |
| Susan Manly - 2007 - 222 páginas
...innovation' that attaches English society to the 'entailed inheritance' of a 'political system ... in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world'; but contrary to Burke's conviction that the 'spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish... | |
| Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - 151 páginas
...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." The result is an image of a constitution which is never outdated, always alive and removed from the fashions... | |
| Richard Gravil - 2008 - 104 páginas
...it'. According to Burke, 'we receive, we hold and transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives'. That is, we must hand on political institutions to our successors in the form in which we receive them... | |
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