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" ... 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... "
The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 47
1821
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Life of William Pitt

John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 pages
...malice." Of course this was but an mcita• ^62-6, on the Birmingham riots. "' l. Hist.,"xxix, 1464. parts; wherein by the disposition of a stupendous...moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of th< human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle aged, or young, but in a condition...
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Life of William Pitt

John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1282 pages
...bequeathed by the wisdom of our forefathers. An admirer of Burke cannot but quote the passage in full: "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory 1 Ibid. As late as gth August a proclamation was posted about Birmingham : " The friends of the good...
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A Political and Social History of England

Frederick Charles Dietz - 1927 - 812 pages
...out of the course of nature; a wild attempt to methodize anarchy." "Our political system," he wrote, "is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with...stupendous wisdom moulding together the great mysterious corporation of the human race, the whole at any one time is never old, or middle aged, or young; but...
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The Story of Law

John Maxcy Zane - 1927 - 540 pages
...description of such a social organization is Burke's superb phrase that any particular human society "is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with...wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, the whole, at one time, is never old or middle-aged or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy,...
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The Romantic Age in Prose: An Anthology

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...lives. The institution of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...correspondence and symmetry with the order of the 2l world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts:...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 4

John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 pages
...Revolution in France, another confounding characteristic of natural order philosophy shows itself: "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts." That nature is the true blueprint, note in his Letters on a Regicide Peace that "constitutions furnish...
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Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 1984 - 512 pages
...Works, n, 454-55. 69 Works, v, 132. 70 Works, I, 313; II, 397, 399. 71 Works, III, 114. nature," is "in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world." He calls it "a permanent body composed of transitory parts," and he compares it to the whole of the...
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The Gothic Bequest: Medieval Institutions in British Thought, 1688-1863

R. J. Smith - 2002 - 252 pages
...facility for both was among the virtues of an inherited constitution.102 For such a constitution was in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order...permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein ... the whole is never old, or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy,...
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism

Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 pages
.... The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of providence, are handed down to us, and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts. . . . Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state ... we are never wholly...
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Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society

James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - 1991 - 448 pages
...lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of providence are handed down to us, and from us, in the same course and order. Our political...correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world as with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts, wherein, by...
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