| Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - Страниц: 350
...harmony with the Natural Law that its method of operation was analogous to "nature." "By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive,...we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives." 85 Because of "this happy effect of following nature," Burke always felt that any unjust statute passed... | |
| Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 2003 - Страниц: 284
...fast as in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive,...in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.58 The disaster approaching in France he blamed on "the shallow speculations of the petulant,... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2003 - Страниц: 436
...sertlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the partem of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government...in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.'8 ui France, ed. with aurod. Connor Cruiie O'Brien (Hannondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, i968).... | |
| Pam Morris - 2004 - Страниц: 264
...in a kind of mortmain forever. . . . We hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives" (120). If power fell into the hands of other classes, patricians claimed, sectional or private interests... | |
| James Chandler, Kevin Gilmartin - 2005 - Страниц: 324
...figure of power, order, and justification — a kind of inheritable cosmopolis. "By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive,...which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world... | |
| John Richetti - 2005 - Страниц: 974
...of the family patrimony is the English constitution, which he describes as an entailed inheritance: 'we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and...in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives'.67 Entailment was a widespread legal practice in eighteenth-century England, a means of passing... | |
| Christopher Kent Rovee - 2006 - Страниц: 284
..."choice of inheritance"; he seems here to resurrect and safeguard an older idea of ancestral portraiture: "Working after the pattern of nature, we receive,...we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives." Property itself, the privileges and values that constitute the national inheritance, takes the form... | |
| Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - 2006 - Страниц: 944
...logic of prescriptive title. 'By a constitutional policy', Burke shrewdly and reassuringly observed, 'we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and...we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives' (Burke 2001, pp. 1H2, 184; Pocock 1960). While Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)... | |
| Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - Страниц: 412
...fast as in a sort of family settlement; grasped in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy working after the pattern of nature, we receive,...government and our privileges, in the same manner we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.40 The Burkean position is as far as it could be from... | |
| Nicholas Guyatt - 2007 - Страниц: 341
...which have so often been given from pulpits." According to Burke, the "institutions of policy" and the "gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order." While historical providentialism envisaged a progressive plan for human history, Burke argued for the... | |
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