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" Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. "
Edmund Burke - Page xvi
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The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society lequires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that, even in the...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect, By having a right to every thing, they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint iipon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of indi,viduals should be subjected,...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...practical defecl. By having a right to every thing, they want /very thing. Government is a contrivance f human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that, even in the...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having aright to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of ciril society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a con.trivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 2

Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having aright to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human ivants^ Men Men have a right that these wants should be provided...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 5

Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 pages
...subject to your Lordship's early and serious consideration than in the following words of Mr. Burke, " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants ; men have a right that those wants should be provided for by that wisdom." And that the wisdom of the British Senate' will...
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The History of the War: From the Commencement of the French ..., Volume 1

Hewson Clarke - 1816 - 874 pages
...thing, they want every. thing. Government ie a contrivance of. human wisdom, to provide for humanwants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided...this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned, the wamV out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires, .not onty...
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