The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity : and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. Edmund Burke: A Historical Study - Стр. 267авторы: John Morley - 1867 - Страниц: 312Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - 1869 - Страниц: 686
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitution, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade. The... | |
| John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - 1869 - Страниц: 686
...simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the object« of society arc of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore...contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitution, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade. The... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1872 - Страниц: 244
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...disposition or direction of power can be suitable cither to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1876 - Страниц: 494
...been constructed without reference to the primary data of the problem. 'The nature of man,' he says, ' is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs.' 1 To neglect to take into account the forces by which men arcbound together in the constituent elements... | |
| John Reeves - 1879 - Страниц: 504
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitution, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade. The... | |
| Cushman Kellogg Davis - 1886 - Страниц: 32
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...disposition or direction of power can be suitable to man's nature, or the quality of his affairs." — " The pretended rights of these theorists are... | |
| University of Michigan - 1886 - Страниц: 124
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...disposition or direction of power can be suitable to man's nature, or the quality of his affairs."— u The pretended rights of these theorists are all... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - Страниц: 656
...an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society. . . . The nature of man is intricate, the objects of society...to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs. . . . The simple governments are fundamentally defective, to say no worse of them. If you were to contemplate... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1890 - Страниц: 568
...becomes absurd to talk ~( them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original v direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefoe no simple disposition or direction of power can Ve suitable either to man's nature, or to... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1893 - Страниц: 604
...an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society. . . . The nature of man is intricate, the objects of society...suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of 396 ENGLAND IN TIIE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CH. Iix. his affairs. . . . The simple governments are fundamentally... | |
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