Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, (if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such... Edmund Burke - Seite 5herausgegeben von - 129 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 Seiten
...sweep the earth with their hurricane, and to break up the fountains of the great deep to overwhelm us. Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1954 - 1234 Seiten
...mechanics, to me, does ignore certain unchangeable truths — the rights of man. "In denying their (man's) false claims of right. I do not mean to injure those...real, and are such as their pretended rights would thoroughly destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which... | |
| Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 Seiten
...more guarded terms. In the Reflections he made a distinction between good and bad claims of right. "Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice. . . the real rights of men. In denying dieir false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which... | |
| Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 Seiten
...sweep the earth with their hurricane, and to break up the fountains of the great deep to overwhelm us. Far am I from denying in theory; full as far is my...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his... | |
| Sue Golding, Susan R. Golding - 1992 - 250 Seiten
...eloquent Edmund Burke, ... the real rights of men. In denying their false [democratic] claims of right, 1 do not mean to injure those which are real, and are...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy ... [For] in this partnership, all men have equal rights, but not to equal things. He that has but... | |
| Francis Canavan - 1995 - 212 Seiten
...topic, see Francis Canavan, Edmund Burke: Prescription and Providence, chap. 4.) As Burke explained: Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his... | |
| David Wootton - 1996 - 964 Seiten
...to itself; but in vain. All this policy in the end will appear as feeble as it is now violent. . . . all books of geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom...causes immediate, and instrumental: for these are all If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 Seiten
...governments, not on a question of abuse, but a question of competency and a question of title. . . . Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 Seiten
...old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny, or the greenest usurpation. . . . Far am I from denying in theory; full as far is my...such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society [government] be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is... | |
| R. T. Allen - 294 Seiten
...at issue with governments, not on a question of abuse, but on a question of competency and title... Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice... the real rights of men. ..If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for... | |
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