 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...demonstration" in politics is "the most fallacious of all sophistry," and his belief th it "politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature" and to history and moral and legal principles, all these grand themes that run through almost everything... | |
 | W. David Clinton - Philosophy - 2007 - 272 pages
...treatise, Scientific Man Versus Power Politics, with the insight from Edmund Burke that "'politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.'" Indeed, in laying out for his readers the extent of "human corruption," Morgenthau points first to... | |
 | Kenneth R. Hammond - Psychology - 2007 - 368 pages
...rationality — that led famed eighteenth-century Irish politician Edmund Burke to write, "Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature, of which reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." We will see the wisdom in Burke's remarks... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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. Pounding the repeal on this basis, it was judged » I do not here enter into the unsatisfactory disquisition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 pages
...is reconciled in policy : and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to Iraman nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by...part. Founding the repeal on this basis, it was judged * I do not here enter into the unsatisfactory disquisition concerning representation real or presumed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Dublin (Ireland) - 1923 - 470 pages
...See also the passages collected in Buckle, History of Civilization in England, chap. VII : " 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," Burke's Works, vol. I, p. 113: "Hence the distinction... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English literature - 1908 - 406 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...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... | |
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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. 
