| David Wootton - 1996 - 964 pages
...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society t subject, what be truth, as a thing that crosses no man's ambition, profit or lust. For I doubt not institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...are real, and are 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 made become his right. It is an institu40 [Discourse on the Love of our Country, 3d ed. p. 39.] tion of beneficence; and law itself... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...those which are real, and are 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 right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| R. T. Allen - 294 pages
...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 which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| 2001 - 244 pages
...those which ate real, and ate such as theit prerended rights would totally destroy. lf civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. lt is an institntion of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a tule. Men have... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...those which are 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 it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by rule. Men have a right to... | |
| William A. Edmundson - 2004 - 244 pages
...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 which it is made become his right" (56). Burke then enumerated a list of "real" rights, which (given the tenor of his attack upon the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...those which are real, and are 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 right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pages
...those which are real, and are 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 right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pages
...those which are real, and are 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 right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
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