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" 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,... "
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Understanding Environmental Pollution: A Primer

Marquita K. Hill - 2004 - 494 pages
...(PBT) Chemicals. http://www.epa.gov/pbt/fact.htm (accessed March, 2003). Chapter 15 Metals "Society is a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." Edmund Burke, 1790 All metals are persistent. However, not all metals are PBTs; that is, not all are...
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Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns

Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 pages
...interventions. These innovations and interventions might in fact question partnership, a community "not only between those who are living, but between...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." This partnership links "the lower to the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world,...
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An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts

Heidi Kaufman, Christopher J. Fauske - 2004 - 308 pages
...This process evokes the Anglo-Irish Edmund Burke's famous vision of society as an organic connection between "those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."5 Although Burke finds women's roles in this continuity purely reproductive, the figure of the...
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Tocqueville's Moral and Political Thought: New Liberalism

Marinus Richard Ringo Ossewaarde - 2004 - 214 pages
...science ... in all art ... in every virtue and in all perfection ... It becomes a partnership . . . between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born'.71 For Tocqueville, 'happy are those who can tie together in their thoughts the past, the present,...
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The Sociology of Ethnicity

Sinisa Malesevic - 2004 - 212 pages
...tradition implies a symbolic link between what Edmund Burke (1968 [1790]) has referred to as a partnership between 'those who are living, those who are dead and those who are yet to be born'. The preservation of ethnic symbols such as language, religion, particular customs,...
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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory

Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 pages
...facticity of their transgenerational duration, suggesting a metaphysical contract beyond time: "Society" is a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection....dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract [...] is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society. This transgenerational and...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States

Joseph Story - 2005 - 1408 pages
...perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art ; a partnership iu every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be bom. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal...
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Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill

Peter Viereck - 200 pages
...government for their mutual benefit. Burke, instead, argued: "Society is indeed a contract. . . . [But] as the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. . . . Changing the state as often as there are floating fancies, ... no one generation could link with...
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Sins Of The Parents: Politics Of National Apologies In The U.S.

Brian Weiner - 2009 - 258 pages
...responsibility. Peter Laslett quotes Edmund Burke 's famous passage that, "Society is indeed a contract. ... As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."6 Laslett adds: "It is worth noting that Burke speaks of the ends and advantages of this intergenerational...
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Conservatism Revisited

Peter Viereck - 216 pages
...government for their mutual benefit. Burke, instead, argued: Society is indeed a contract . . . [but] as the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be bom . . .. Changing the state as often as there are floating fancies, ... no one generation could link...
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