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" We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... "
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Recasting Conservatism: Oakeshott, Strauss, and the Response to Postmodernism

Robert Devigne - 1996 - 292 pages
...know that we have made no discoveries; and we think no discoveries are to be made in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born," wrote Burke. "In England . . . we still feel within us, and we cherish and cultivate, those inbred...
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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 pages
...that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the...
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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the ...

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 pages
...know we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the...
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The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in ...

Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - 138 pages
...believed that "we have made no discoveries, and . . . that no discoveries are to be made, in morality, nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born" (97). He further suggested that "we are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his private stock...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality — nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the...
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Progress, Poverty, and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus

John Avery - 1997 - 168 pages
...that ue have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the...
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Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology

Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 pages
...know we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...made no discoveries,' he insisted, 'and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood before we were born'. 117 Moreover, the seasoned Whig bared the dark secret of revolutionary fervour:...
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Diverging Time: The Politics of Modernity in Kant, Hegel, and Marx

David Carvounas - 2002 - 142 pages
...that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in...liberty, which were understood long before we were born. "Burke, Reflections, 86. 10. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law...
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Thomas Sowell - 2002 - 308 pages
...that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty . . . 46 More generally, the very concept of "social science," which largely originated among those...
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