 | James Wolfendale - 1887 - 456 pages
...purpose of government is to remove unjust burdens, to encourage progress, and reconcile all classes. " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants " says Burke. " That thou mayest live." 2. Inheritance is secured. Strife and enmity, robbery and injustice,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...conspirator against their sovereignty. 2132 John Bigelow : Letter to the New York Tribune, Sept. 14, 1874. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 2133 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France. The moment you abate anything from the full rights... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...with prayers, hi« last resource." Ibid. " I'll find a thousand shifts toget away." —SHAKESPEARE. " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." — BURKK. EXPEDIENT. FIT. EXPEDIENCY (see EXPEDIENT) is a kind of FITNESS (O. Fr. J'aie t , fait,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1892 - 476 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...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... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 812 pages
...globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing UL Sir W. Jones. Vers. 14, 15. King over thee. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (Burke.) Horses. For stateliness and majesty what is comparable to a horse ? — Sir T. More. Vers.... | |
 | W. P. F. Ljunggren - English language - 1893 - 178 pages
...should have been so relentless towards him (Thack. Van. F. 2, 187). Right, justice, reason, accordance. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by his wisdom. (JJurkc in Herrig 261). 1 thought it was but justice to O'Brien that they should know Simple... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1894 - 232 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything ' men ' want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.'* For its own benefit, therefore, human society is obliged to sanction and protect the institution of... | |
 | United States. Strike Commission - Pullman Strike, 1894 - 1895 - 744 pages
...Writer offers no specifically defined plan for correction of labor troubles, asserts generally that as "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants" (Burke) we ought to look to the Government for the elimination of social evils and exert all our strength... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...abstract 5 perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a , contrivance of human wisdom to provide...be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants 10 is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...from their homes." Edmund Burke, one of the wisest political philosophers of any age, has said that 'Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society,, of a sufficient restraint upon... | |
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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. 
