 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
 | Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - Political science - 1885 - 546 pages
...acquires. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed...old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...Present, was itself founded on an alteration of some Past that went before it.'" ProgreSS. — Burke. BY the disposition of a stupendous Wisdom, moulding...Human Race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middled-aged, or young ; but, in a condition of unchangeable Constancy, moves on through the varied... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 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...stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporat,on of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middleaged, or young, but,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 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, 10 and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 392 pages
...Burke answers this by saying that God had appointed a certain order for the whole human race.: ' A mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, full of renovation and progression. . . . The awful Author of our being... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1893 - 604 pages
...correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world 392 'ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CH. xuc. and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts, wherein fey the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...historical time. "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" (12.0). The "stupendous wisdom" is that... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - Political Science - 1989 - 304 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. This has many times been cited as evidence... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - Political Science - 1989 - 324 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. This has many times been cited as evidence... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...großartigsten Bildern werden, "Wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole,...varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression."4 Eine solche Metaphorik kann leicht organizistisch mißverstanden werden. Was für Burkes... | |
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