 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...independence of it ; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their...Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of ciril society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1815 - 596 pages
...subject to your Lordship's early and serious consideration than in the following words of Mr. Burke, " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants ; men have a right that those wants should be provided for by that wisdom." And that the wisdom of the British Senate' will... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 874 pages
...thing, they want every. thing. Government ie a contrivance of. human wisdom, to provide for humanwants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided...this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned, the wamV out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires, .not onty... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...; quorumquo descriptiono omnis Reipublicra modoratio coatinctur." CICERO DE I-LG. lib. 3. cap. 2. " Government is a contrivance of human Wisdom to provide for human wants." , BURKE. BOSTON: BILLIARD, 'GRAY, AND CoMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BRoWN, SHATTUCK, AND Co. 1833. i Entered... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human want*. istorian says, pronis auriina acdpitur, ba reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract P|@ he reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 458 pages
...ingenious " simile unlike," most people, we believe, will rest in the plain conclusion of Burke, that " government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants *." * Reflections on the French Revolution. It would not, perhaps, have been worth while to examine... | |
 | John Roby - Europe - 1838 - 444 pages
...a celebrated writer is so apt to my subject, that I cannot resist the temptation to insert it: —" Government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants. Society requires, not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 548 pages
...much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defeat. By having a right to every thing, they want every...to provide for human wants. Men have a right that the wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole. " Government is not made in virtue of natural rights. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
