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; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together... Outlines of the History of the English Language - Page 162by George Lillie Craik - 1851Full view - About this book
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...DCCCCLXXXVIIL Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. — Burke. DCCCCLXXXIX. The question... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...she become visible!— Plato. DCCCCLXXXVm. posed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition ot a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. — Burke. DCCCCLXXXIX. The question... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...of a stupendous WISDOM, the whole human race, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or yonng ; but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenonr of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Burke. and adjusted by Flavins, under... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - End of the world - 1833 - 234 pages
...we the individuals pass away. Such is, to borrow the words of an eloquent and philosophic writer, " the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body...perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression."* > Willingly do I give place to thee, dear Alfred ! advance, * Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of L part» ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of certainly not be the exaction of two hundred pullets,...manners, and its politics dependent upon them ; and tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature... | |
| William Henry C. Grey - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1835 - 592 pages
...course and order. 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;—wherein, by the disposition of stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation... | |
| 1837 - 352 pages
...our perpetuity as a whole with our fleeting and perishable state as individuals. " Such" says he " is the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body...perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression." 1062. Military Discipline. — When the young rustic is brought to the regiment, ho is at first treated... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed...decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by pre- 1 serving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly... | |
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