 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...greateft poffible complexity ; and therefore no fimple difpofition or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs....governments are fundamentally defective, to fay no worfe of them. If you were to contemplate fociety in but one point of view, all thefe fimple modes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...greateft poffible complexity ; and therefore no fimple difpofition or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the firnplicity of contrivance aimed at and boafted of in any new political conftiuuions, I am at no lofs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 380 pages
...greateft poffible complexity; and therefore no fimple difpofition or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his .affairs. When I hear the fimplicitjf of contrivance aimed at and boafted of in any new political conftitutions, I am at no lofs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...greatcft poffible complexity; and therefore no fimple difpofuion or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear th<j fimplicity of contrivance aimed at and boafted of in any new political conftiturions, I am at... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 418 pages
...greateft poffible complexity ; and therefore no fimple difpofition or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs....contrivance aimed at and boafted of in any new political conftiturions, I am at no lofs to decide that the artificers are grofsly ignorant of their trade, or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...greateft poflible complexity; and therefore no firriple difpofition or direction of power can be fui table either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs....governments are fundamentally defective, to fay no worfe of them. If you were to contemplate fociety fetwtff in but one point of view, all thefe fimple... | |
 | 1797 - 700 pages
...greateft poflible complexity ; and therefore no fimple difpofition or direftion of power can be fuitable. either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the firaplicity of contrivance aimed at and beafted of in any new political conftitutions,- I am at no... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...difpofition or direction of power can be fuitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his aflairs. When I hear the fimplicity of contrivance aimed at...that the artificers are grofsly ignorant of their 'fade, or totally negligent of their duty. The governments are fundamentally defective, to to fay no... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...greatest possible complexity; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When 1 hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I... | |
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The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity... 
