 | Ian Ward - 2004 - 227 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Chandler, Kevin Gilmartin - 2005 - 324 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Issitt - 2006 - 216 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Eileen Hunt Botting - 2012 - 268 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Guyatt - 2007 - 341 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Susan Manly - 2007 - 222 σελίδες
...innovation' that attaches English society to the 'entailed inheritance' of a 'political system ... in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world'; but contrary to Burke's conviction that the 'spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 σελίδες
...same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed...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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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... 
