 It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living,...  The North American Review - Seite 422herausgegeben von - 1844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 Seiten
...the bonds between generations. In the Reflections, Burke tells us that society is not a contract but a partnership, "not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." He deplores those who "commit waste on the inheritance, by destroying at their pleasure the whole original... | |
 | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese - 2005
...each generation must renew its compact with the polity and leaned toward Burke's view of society as "a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." A slaveholder who considered slavery a great evil, Madison wrestled with the interlocking issues of... | |
 | Shashi Kant, R. Albert Berry - 2005 - 300 Seiten
...such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only among those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...one shares with instructors or peers. Indeed, as a scholar becomes part of the great Burkean contract 'between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born,' she will be in closest touch with colleagues at other universities or even with scholars of a different... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 Seiten
...common love of liberty - or his insistence in the Reflections that society is 'a partnership . . . between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born', Burke seeks to revivify the incantatory power attributed to ancient eloquence.7 In so doing, he opposes... | |
 | Sarah F. Wood - 2005 - 328 Seiten
...posterity to the "end of time" '. 12 Burkes Reflections may have described 'Society' as a 'partnership' between 'those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born', but Paine was certain that 'the vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous... | |
 | Michael Walzer - 2005 - 228 Seiten
...permit or require criminal actions? Edmund Burke's description of the political community as a contract between "those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born" helps us to see what is at stake here.10 The metaphor, I suppose, is inappropriate,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 Seiten
...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774) was an Irish... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 Seiten
...partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a perishable nature. It is partnership in all science, a partnership in all art,...those who are dead and those who are to be born." Though the state includes government as one of the essential elements, it is necessary to employ the... | |
 | 2006 - 390 Seiten
...protecting the full nature of society as conceived by Edmund Burke: 'Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a partnership not only between those who...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.'57 Contemporary states already exercise some control over free riding on these collective goods... | |
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