 ... together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and...  The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 471821Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1795 - 386 pages
...grounded, occurs in Buffon or in Virgil ? x* " Our political fyftetn is placed in a juft cor" refpondence and Symmetry with the order of the " world, and with the mode ofexiftence decreed " to a permanent body compofed of tranfitory parts i " wherein, by the difpofition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune.the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, mould-. ing together the great mysterious incorporation r^ the human race, the whole, at one time,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...part of the thought, or rather the fact on which it is grounded, occurs in Buffbn or in Virgil ? " Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorpo'ra. tiori'pf the human race, the whole at one time is never' old, or middle-aged, or young,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...lives.The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of providence, are handed down to us and from •us, in the same course and order. Our...transitory parts ;—wherein, by the disposition of stupendous wisdom, moulding- together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the^ whole,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...lives. The institutions of policy,the goods of fortune,the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...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,... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - Italy - 1818 - 406 pages
...down " through a succession of generations, in the " same course and order. The political sys" tem is placed in a just correspondence and " symmetry...world, and " with the mode of existence decreed to a per" manent body, composed of transitory parts, " wherein by the disposition of a stupendous " wisdom,... | |
 | John Adolphus - Commonwealth of Nations - 1818 - 560 pages
...in the fame courfe and order. Our political fyftem is placed in a juft correlpondence and fymmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body compofed of tranfitory parts ; wherein, by the difpofition of a ftupenduous wifdom, moulding together... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...Jives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of providence, are handed down to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...transitory parts ;—wherein, by the disposition of stupenduous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole,... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; parts; wherein, by the disposition of stupendous wisdom, mouldering together the great mysterious... | |
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