 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 pages
...simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect.'' — Reflections on the Revolution in France. 6. an uniformity of method, Bacon is alluding to the method... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...principles except in their bounded application to facts and circumstances. Circumstances [he writes] give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing...render every civil and political scheme beneficial or obnoxious to mankind.t As Mr. Payne has observed, what a German metaphysical theologian at the end... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1913 - 290 pages
...metaphysically mad.' 1 One more sentence (it has been quoted a thousand times) may clinch the point : ' Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...distinguishing colour and discriminating effect.' 2 Yet this, even this, is not Burke 's greatest service to theory. For it is a service greater still,... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1915 - 776 pages
...simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." So while the existence of this natural and healthy desire for the utmost political freedom should be... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude color, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1920 - 756 pages
...view of the object, as it stands stripped of ••very relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1920 - 718 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of «'\ery relation, In all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1921 - 802 pages
...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 348 pages
...Nothing universal, he said, can be rationally affirmed on any moral or political subject. ' Circumstances give, in reality, to every political principle its...render every civil and political scheme beneficial or obnoxious to mankind.' To a member of the National Assembly in France he wrote disclaiming the power... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...reality tr, pvpry — pnliHnal principle — its distinguishing cplQur_aod. discriminating effeotr— ~The circumstances are what render every civil and...beneficial or noxious to mankind. Abstractedly speaking, £S>vernTnp.ntJ_aajyell__a.s liberty, is gnnfjj_yp.t could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have... | |
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands, stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.... 
