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" Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts... "
Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Page 179
by Laconics - 1829
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellanies ...

Edmund Burke - 1892 - 598 pages
...fortune, the gifts of providence, are handed down to us, and from us, ~in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode oi eristence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 6

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1893 - 604 pages
...correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world 392 'ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CH. xuc. and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts, wherein fey the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 10

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 558 pages
...fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, molding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 19

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of » stupendous wisdom, molding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole,...
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Hume, Volume 7

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...believe in the mysterious virtue of wax and parchment." He was using no idle epithet, when he described the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, " moulding...great mysterious incorporation of the human race." To him there actually was an element of mystery in the") cohesion of men in societies, in political...
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Edmund Burke, Apostle of Justice and Liberty

T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...fortune, the " gifts of Providence, are handed down to us and " from us in the same course and order. Our " political system is placed in a just correspondence...body " composed of transitory parts, wherein, by the dis" position of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together " the great mysterious incorporation of the...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...must ever have two advantages over a new one ; it is established and it is understood. — Colton. - mi Jdlbaged, or young, but moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation,...
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Emancipation: An Introduction to the System of Progressive Government

Norbert Lafayette Savay - 1908 - 178 pages
...for their own good. But assum1 "Our political System is placed in a just correspondence and sympathy with the order of the world and with the mode of existence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts." — .Ed. Burke, Works, vol. v., p. 70. 41 ing that the System by which the power is distributed is...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...evrr have two advantages over a new one ; it ia established and it ia understood. — Collón. dom, r gravee ere for mi.bi h aged, or young, but moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation,...
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William Pitt and the Great War

John Holland Rose - 1911 - 654 pages
...bequeathed by the wisdom of our forefathers. An admirer of Burke cannot but quote the passage in full: "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory As late as 9th August a proclamation was posted about Birmingham "The friends of the good cause are...
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