 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...reconciled in legal speculation is a matter of no consequence. It is reconciled in policy: and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature." Ibid., 398. 7 16. boundaries. Not geographical boundaries, but limits of power, — especially in regard... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 250 pages
...reconciled in legal speculation is a matter of no consequence. It is reconciled in policy : and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature." 398. 7 16. boundaries. Not geographical boundaries, but limits of power, — especially in regard to... | |
 | Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - Authors, English - 1898 - 286 pages
...were yet altogether practical. The empiric, not the speculative method was his. "Politics," he says, "ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part."1 Burke's policy as statesman may be said to be without philosophical basis.2 Mary Wollstonecraft... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1904 - 976 pages
...on his knowledge of political economy, Brougham's Sketches of Statesmen, vol. ip 205. 291 " Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." Observations on a late State of the Nation, in Btirke's Works, vol. ip 113- [This very sentence is... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...people should determine what sort of government is fitted for them. He said somewhere that "politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." The people of the colonies should, for the reasons given, be admitted into an interest in the Constitution.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 550 pages
...'conclusive as to right, but the very reverse as to policy and practice.' ' Politics ought to be adjnsted not to human reasonings but to human nature; of which...is but a part and by no means the greatest part.' ' The opinion of my having some abstract right in my favour would not put me much at my ease in passing... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1912 - 370 pages
...reconciled in legal speculation is a matter of no consequence. It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." l That was the view which Burke earnestly impressed upon the leaders of his own party, who had hitherto... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 606 pages
...questions may often be "conclusive as to right, but the very reverse as to policy and practice." "Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to...is but a part and by no means the greatest part.'.' "The opinion of my having some abstract right in my favour would not put me much at my ease in passing... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 552 pages
...very reverse as to policy and practice.' ' Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings bat to human nature; of •which the reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.' ' The opinion of my having some abstract right in my favour would not put me much at my ease in passing... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 484 pages
...gives the ply to his convictions. He is already sure that politics are not a science ; and that they ' ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.' Piety, the reverence for the past, the sense of an inherited social bond, must also be taken into account... | |
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It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part. 
