 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 σελίδες
...politic. He thought of it as a "great mysterious incorporation of the human race," the whole of which is "never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied terror of decay, fall, renovation, and progression." Law and morals in the interest of the body politic... | |
 | Solomon Marcus Stroock, Louis Ginzberg, Mordecai Menahem Kaplan - 1919 - 44 σελίδες
...life, here is organic process, here is what the past enfolded, here lies evolutionary expectation. " In what we improve we are never wholly new, in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." Proudhon, somewhere remarks, that if you go very deeply into politics you are sure to get into theology.... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 σελίδες
...once upon principles of history and of expediency is resolved in terms of natural order philosophy: "by preserving the method of nature in the conduct...wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete."2' Critical opinion concedes to Smith an affinity for history. He "had a considerable historical... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature... | |
 | R. J. Smith - 2002 - 252 σελίδες
...the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein ... the whole is never old, or middle-aged or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression. Thus by preserving the method of nature... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - 304 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. This has many times been cited as evidence... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but in a condition...unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression" (12.0). The "stupendous wisdom" is that... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - 1989 - 324 σελίδες
...wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition...unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. This has many times been cited as evidence... | |
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... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged,... 
