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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. "
The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of His ... - Page 311
by Robert Bisset - 1800
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The Romantic Revolt

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1907 - 526 pages
...government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that their wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. ... In this sense, the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their...
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Periods of European Literature, Volume 10

George Saintsbury - 1907 - 530 pages
...interest not only of the community, but of the individual himself. For " government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that their wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out...
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The Romantic Revolt

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1907 - 530 pages
...interest not only of the community, but of the individual himself. For " government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that their wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out...
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Selections of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 pages
...^provide for human^awi/j. Men have a right that the: wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among th wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires n only that the passions of individuals...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...they want everything. Gov; ernrnentjs.a^ontriyance of human wisdorn toprovidejor human '<i'(injs_. Men have a right that these wants should be provided...reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restratn^jjypQirtrleir passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should...
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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...restraint upon their passions. Society requires not [90 only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body,...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...By having a right to everything they want everything. Governmenl is a contrivance of human wisdom tc ther day upon a [130 level with them, now exalted...sympathy what they felt in common with them before. oi civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not [90 only that...
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Pacific Telephone Magazine, Volume 15

1921 - 646 pages
...gatherings, tucks, and pressings, ending with a wonderful binding." ^ Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. — Burke. • Pacific • icle-pinono • Washington Division Division Headquarters — Seattle Division...
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Christ and Cæsar

Nathaniel Micklem, Herbert Morgan - 1921 - 300 pages
...contention of Burke : " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. . . . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. . . . This can only be done by a power out of themselves, and not, in the exercise of its function,...
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The History of Political Science from Plato to the Present

Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 pages
...practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have...subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as individuals, the inclinations of men should be frequently thwarted, their will controlled, and their...
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