 ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged,...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 79by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporat,on of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middleaged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding 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 tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, 10 and progression.... | |
 | Christianity - 1891 - 220 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding 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 progression.... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 392 pages
...stupendous wisdom moulding 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 tenour of perpetual decay, full of renovation and progression.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...fall, renovation, and progression. Thus by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding 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 progression.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...wisdom, moulding 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 progression.... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding 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 progression.... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...stupendous wisdom, moulding together the 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 progression."4... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.4' For Burke civil society is organic, a creation of man's corporate wisdom and power, working... | |
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