 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 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... | |
 | New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council - Constitutional history - 1853 - 244 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckened the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient re-restraint upon their passions. Society... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of ahstract perfecyon : hut their ahstract y bV@ w (M Q2 V ` ; _ " m[ Y& Gڪ $ | cG Vu he provided for hy this wisdom. Among these wants w to he reckoned the want, out of civil society,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1864 - 136 pages
...it ought not to be so. " Government," says Burke (to go back to Burke again), " is a contri" vance of human wisdom to provide for human " wants. Men...these wants " should be provided for by this wisdom." We are a free people, we have made our own Government. Our own wisdom has planned our contrivance for... | |
 | 1864 - 938 pages
...not, it seems as if it ought not to be so. " Government," says Burke (to go back to Burke again), " is a contrivance of human " wisdom to provide for...wants. " Men have a right that these wants " should be.provided for by this wisdom." We are a free people, we have made our own Government. Our own wisdom... | |
 | 1864 - 536 pages
...not, it seems as if it ought not to be so. " Government," says Burke (to go back to Burke again), " is a contrivance of human " wisdom to provide for human wants. " Men have a riglxt that these wants " should be.provided for by this v/isdom." We are a free people, we have made... | |
 | Francis Fulford - Sermons - 1865 - 340 pages
...Christian philosopher of modern times — Edmund Burke — in his book on the French Revolution : " 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. *... | |
 | R. J. Michael - Christian socialism - 1867 - 322 pages
...united to the logic of facts and figures. CHAPTER II. ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. . . . Borne, under her emperors, united the evils inevitably attendant on the dominion of despotism... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Amongst these wants is to be reckoned the want out of civil society of a sufficient restraint upon... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...prayers, hii last resource." Ibid. " I'll rind a thousand shifts to get away." — Kh(ike$i>ei.ire. "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." — Burke. EXPEDIENT. FIT. EXPEDIENCY (see EXPEDIENT) is a kind of FITNESS (connected with the old... | |
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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. 
