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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.... "
The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 11
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Gladstone Centenary Essays

David Bebbington, Roger Swift - 2000 - 308 pages
...whenever the circumstances required it. Indeed, Edmund Burke had pointed out that '[circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.' 4 ' Almost paraphrasing Burke, Gladstone noted towards the end of his life: I am by no means sure ......
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Gladstone Centenary Essays

David Bebbington, Roger Swift - 2000 - 304 pages
...whenever the circumstances required it. Indeed, Edmund Burke had pointed out that '[circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing...civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.'4' Almost paraphrasing Burke, Gladstone noted towards the end of his life: I am by no means...
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Romanticism at the End of History

Jerome Christensen - 2000 - 262 pages
...analogues would be law, the line that has been laid down from time immemorial, and circumstances, which "give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect" (Burke, 90). Law is to circumstances as succession is to deviation, as the bloodline of the British...
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The Supreme Court in American Society: Equal Justice Under Law

Kermit L. Hall - 2001 - 806 pages
...provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1802. See the discussion in 1 WARREN, mpra note 10, at 269-72. 66 "Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...principle its distinguishing colour and discriminating effecL The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or norious to...
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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 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...
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A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project

Darby Lewes - 2003 - 204 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. (89-90) "Stripped of every relation" — this is precisely how Shelley...
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War and the American Presidency

Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2004 - 184 pages
...practice of viewing an 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." Even Arnold Toynbee, the magician of historical analogy, has remarked...
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Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology

W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - 260 pages
...of abstract morality, especially if it is divorced from immediate circumstances that, Burke wrote, "give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect."36 Kirk could not accept a natural law that predefines the good for all time and formulates...
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Peace 1996-2000

Irwin Abrams - 2005 - 180 pages
...seem to think that dealing with fascists is merely a game where one won't get hurt. "Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." That is the nub of the matter. True, I am sure of other conflicts. Previous precedents must not blind...
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Burke, Select Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 2005 - 848 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. The 8 REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. parade, and with as great a bustle of applause, as if you had been visited...
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