 | William Wallace - Ethics - 1898 - 628 pages
...virtue of natural rights/ It ' is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants/ And if 'men have a right, that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom/ then, — as amongst these wants is ' the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...pmciical d-.-t'^ct. Bv baring a rigJit to everything they want everrthing. GOYerumc-nt uao^ntrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Amoug these want* is to be reckoned the want, out of civfl society, of a bufncient restraint upon their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...Government is not made in virtue of natural " rights, which may and do exist in total indepen" dence of it. Government is a contrivance of " human wisdom to provide for human wants." To obtain this main end of government—justice— in a highly complex society, it was necessary, in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 136 pages
...by theories on the rights of man, had not wisdom enough to constitute an effective government, for " government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." " They might have looked to liberty-loving England for example, where the officers of the church were... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Classicism - 1907 - 530 pages
...the State is acting in the interest not only of the community, but of the individual himself. For " government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that their wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - European literature - 1907 - 530 pages
...the State is acting in the interest not only of the community, but of the individual himself. For " government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that their wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...Buler of the universe will require of them a strict account of their stewardship.— Graver Cleveland. ws more Burke. No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...Bnler of the universe will require of them a strict account of their stewardship. — Orover Cleveland. uth. — Oeorge Eliot. Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehoo — Burke. No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius - English language - 1909 - 212 pages
...and desolate house behind Fleet Street (Macaulay). — We were taken for spies (§46, Note 1). — Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants (Burke). — To play for a shilling. It is for men's health to be temperate (Tillotson). — To fight... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - English language - 1909 - 178 pages
...is the art and science of human action as directed towards the chief good of life. —ARISTOTLE. 7. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. —BURKE. 8. I have read somewhere . . . that history is philosophy teaching by example. —BOLINGBROKE.... | |
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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. 
