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" Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great " primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible World, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable,... "
Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Page 29
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Don Herzog - 2000 - 580 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures each in their appointed place." Authority and subject alike "move with the order of the universe," an order finally depending on the...
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Revisioning the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Essays from Twenty ...

William G. Shade - 1998 - 314 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...Physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed places." We have here one of the classic confrontations in the entire history of political thought....
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Thinking Through the Environment: A Reader

Mark J. Smith - 1999 - 454 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place." The contract Burke has in mind is hardly an explicit contract, for it is "between those who are living,...
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The Paleoconservatives: New Voices of the Old Right

Joseph Scotchie - 228 pages
..."linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible worlds, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place." We have no right to break this contract of eternal society; and if we do, we are cast out of this world...
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The Early T. S. Eliot and Western Philosophy

Rafey Habib - 1999 - 316 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.3o Burke's words express a crucial dimension of his political strategy: the situation of the...
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Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and Its Reading

Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 pages
...dead, and those who are to be born. . . , connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place" ([1790] 1969, 194-96). 11o. On the relation between state and morality in Rome, on "the government...
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The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel

Eve Tavor Bannet - 2000 - 324 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place."69 Burke insisted that, in the social contract of which Locke spoke, man "abdicates all right...
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The Peripatetic

John Thelwall - 2001 - 464 pages
...in a "just correspondence and symmetry" with "the great primeval contract of eternal society . . . sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all...physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place."26 For democrats like Thelwall, all such distinctions are false, arbitrary, and artificial;...
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Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition

Benjamin W. Redekop, Calvin Redekop - 2001 - 276 pages
...linking the lower with the 33 higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and moral natures, each in their appointed place. (105-6) Burke 's extended defense of traditional organized...
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The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism

Angela Esterhammer - 2001 - 396 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place. (Writings 8: 146-47) Describing the state's power as an extension and reflection of God's power, Burke...
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