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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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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 pages
...notwithstanding, a new character and may have the advantage of change without the imputation of inconstancy.40 Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world . . . wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...
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Shakespeare Survey, Issue 51

Stanley Wells - 2003 - 434 pages
...between the structure of the family and the structure of the British government, claiming that Britain's political system 'is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and that 'we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution...
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The English Constitution: Myths and Realities

Ian Ward - 2004 - 227 pages
...precedent.182 All in all, the English constitution, according to Burke, was in 'harmony' with nature, 'placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world', perfected by the 'disposition of stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...
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Questions of Tradition

Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - 2004 - 348 pages
...the English political experience, still characterized this traditionalist orientation as operating 'in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and realizing 'a constitutional policy working after the pattern of nature.'81 And Friedrich Karl von Savigny,...
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Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780-1840

James Chandler, Kevin Gilmartin - 2005 - 324 pages
...our privileges, in the same manner in 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 . . . preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state." 9 Thus, though the unwritten constitution...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...on the fears of these target readers, Burke insinuates, over and over again, that while the British political system 'is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world', what is happening in France 'seems out of nature'. In this way, conservative ideology is presented...
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An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke

Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 pages
...the best-known passage in Burke's later writings is his description of the British constitution as placed in "a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world."25 A similar passage that seems to me as important — though instructively different in its...
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Jeremiah Joyce: Radical, Dissenter and Writer

John Issitt - 2006 - 216 pages
...beyond human reason and that the legitimacy of government and social hierarchy rested on the fact that 'Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world'.3 Burke's views on reason and government came to dominate the political stage and rational dissenters...
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Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of ...

Eileen Hunt Botting - 2012 - 268 pages
...tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression." 53 The British constitutional monarchy is "placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world" insofar as generations of people pass through its stable and enduring political institutions. Like...
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Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau

John Farrell - 2006 - 372 pages
...stands in wonder before "the disposition of a stupendous wisdom" in the English social order, a system "placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world," a mechanism both providential and natural, "the result of profound reflection, or rather the happy...
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