 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
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...in the mysterious virtue of wax and parchment." IIe was using no otiose epithet, when he described the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, "moulding...great mysterious incorporation of the human race." To him there actually was an clement of mystery in the cohesion of men in societies, in political obedience,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore, Reginald James Mure - International law - 1879 - 810 pages
...ac. 1. (c) "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 trnngitnry parts ; wherein by the disposition of a Stupendous Wisdom, so moulding together the great... | |
 | 1880 - 930 pages
...be dispossessed. We can but say, such is mankind; such the human race. "Such," exclaims Burke, "is the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body...the human race, the whole at one time is never old, nor middle aged, nor young, but in a condition of unchange. able constancy, moves on through the varied... | |
 | Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 418 pages
...memorable occasion, uttered sentiments somewhat akin to those we have extracted, when he said, — ' By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.' Thus Mr. Disraeli was quite on a par... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...8AMK WORK.) 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;1 wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...believe in the mysterious virtue of wax and parchment." He was using no otiose epithet, when he described the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, " moulding...great mysterious incorporation of the human race." To him there actually was an element of mystery in the cohesion of men in societies, in political obedience,... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...Con-stitution in 1790. 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...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, in preserving that method of nature... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...Constitution in 1790. ' 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...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual de9ay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus in preserving that method of nature... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1885 - 582 pages
...Constitution in 1790. ' 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...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus in preserving that method of nature... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - North Carolina - 1885 - 324 pages
...Constitution in 1790. 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...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, in preserving that method of nature... | |
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