| David Wootton - 1996 - 964 sider
...science of government being therefore so practical in itself and intended for such practical purposes — These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium,... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 sider
...science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 sider
...science of government being, therefore, so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium,... | |
| James W. Vice - 1998 - 300 sider
...which they did not hold.) As Burke justified his conservatism: "it is with infinite caution that a man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice...tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society" (R: 70). This is especially apt when some considerable degree of freedom has been enjoyed: "...to form... | |
| Edmund Burke (III) - 1999 - 356 sider
...political communion for any length of time was entitled to respect. As he put it in the Reflections itself; 'it is with infinite caution that any man ought to...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes'. Political institutions and practices were validated by prescription, that is the argument that they... | |
| Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - 2003 - 348 sider
...science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more...any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society.30 The principles that we today think of as "the First Amendment" are very much such an "edifice"... | |
| Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 sider
...little moment, on which a very great part of its prosperity or adversity may most essentially depend.' 6 'It is with infinite caution that any man ought to...and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.' 7 'You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right [the Bill of Rights of 1688/9],... | |
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