 ... infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that, while...  Works - Pagina 94door Edmund Burke - 1792Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...metaphyfically true, they are morally and politically falfe. falfe. The rights of men are in a fort of mid-, die, incapable of definition, but not impoffible to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 370 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...metaphyfically true, they are morally and politically felfe. The rights of men are in a fort of mid<Re, incapable of definition, but not impoffible to be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 372 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...metaphyfically true, they are morally and politically falfc. The rights of men are in a fort of ;;;;</die, incapable of definition, but not impofTibJe to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 380 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for wirh great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...a favourite member. The pretended rights of thefe theories are all extremes -, and in proportion as they are metaphyficalJy \pjfyfically true, they are... | |
 | William Belsham - 1791 - 300 pagina’s
...applying this principle to the inveftigation of the rightsof man,itmuft ever be remembered, that " in' proportion as they are metaphyfically true, they are morally and politically falfe ;" which clearly proves, to the confufion of the " (hallow and (hort-fighted coxcombs of philofophy,"... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1791 - 418 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...a fort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impoffible to be difcerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and thefe are often... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1792 - 476 pagina’s
...? To thefe, and various other queflions which may be afked, we can obtain no anfwer. Once more : " The pretended rights of thefe " theorifts are all...fort of middle, incapable of definition, " but not importable to be difcerned. The rights " of men in government are their advantages ; " and thefe are... | |
 | John Wilde - 1793 - 688 pagina’s
...would make him wrong;. And to quote no more (for the thing would be pndlefs), the fame book fays : " The pretended " rights of thefe theorifts are all...rights of " men are in a fort of middle, incapable of defini" tion, but not impoffible to be difceined. The *' rights of men in governments are their advan"... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloully anfwered, than that, while fome parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or, perhaps, materially...injured, by the over-care of a favourite member.-. - Ibid. RIGHTS (PETITION AND DECLARATION OF.) IN the famous law of tbe^d of Charles I. called fhe Petition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 458 pagina’s
...imperfectly and anomaloufly anfwered, than that, while fomc parts are provided for with great exactnefs, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially...metaphyfically true, they are morally and politically falie. The rights of men are in a fort of middle, incapable , of definition, but not impoffible to... | |
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