 | Carl Boggs - Social Science - 1993 - 242 pages
...humanity that could only be described as "savage and brutal."38 It follows that "By this unprivileged facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are fleeting fancies or fashions, the whole chain of continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No... | |
 | David Bromwich - Education - 1994 - 284 pages
...respect their contrivances, as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state...become little better than the flies of a summer.' Burke's perspective here may have started by being nostalgic and paternalist; in the end, he offers... | |
 | Francis Canavan - Business & Economics - 1995 - 212 pages
...of the revolutionary political philosophy would destroy the continuity not only of the government: "The whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth...would become little better than the flies of a summer" (Works 5: 181; cf. Corr. 6: 173). In France, revolutionary ideology had already removed the possibility... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...respect their contrivances as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. on whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which with all its... | |
 | Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham - Religion - 2003 - 320 pages
...state with the church, and the people will not be so ready as they otherwise might be to "chang[e) the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions."43 To avoid the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...respect their contrivances, as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state...would become little better than the flies of a summer. And first of all the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...respect their contrivances as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state...would become little better than the flies of a summer. And first of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its... | |
 | R. T. Allen - Philosophy - 294 pages
...ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as they were the entire masters [then] By this unprincipled facility of changing the state...in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or factions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation should... | |
 | Larry Alexander - Law - 2001 - 336 pages
...well-known conservative arguments in politics as well, of which the best known are those of Edmund Burke: By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and as in many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth... | |
 | Uday Singh Mehta - Philosophy - 1999 - 250 pages
...respect their contrivances, as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state...become little better than the flies of a summer.'" To act as though we were the "entire masters" of the institutions that circumscribe our existence is... | |
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By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often and as much and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men... 
