 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 páginas
...they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of [210 # mathematic- [220 ally, true moral denominations. By these theorists the right of the people is almost... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1921 - 314 páginas
...in Government are their advantages; and these are often in balance between differences of good; and in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and...and evil. Political reason is a computing principle ; adding—subtracting— multiplying—and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically,... | |
 | Francis Sydney Marvin - 1921 - 200 páginas
...proportion as they are metaphysically true they are morally and politically false. The rights of man are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. Far am I from denying the real rights of man. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1923 - 1288 páginas
...that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty. . • • The rights of men in governments are their advantages,...good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil.. • • I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption to consider... | |
 | Oklahoma State Bar Association - 1922 - 262 páginas
...extremes; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they the morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of...good and evil and sometimes between evil and evil." In other words questions of law and of statecraft cannot be solved by pure rules of logic. When prohibition... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 páginas
...extremes: land in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are /morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort » of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be J discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages; and these are often in balances... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 592 páginas
...proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men aro in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but...are often in balances between differences of good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle ; adding,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1974 - 268 páginas
...astrological, mysterious importance, to tell them its powers in these words— "The Rights of Man in government are their advantages;- and these are often in balances between differences of good; and in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political... | |
 | Alexander M. Bickel - 1975 - 174 páginas
...established by any theoretical definition, as Burke said of the rights of man, but are in "balance between differences of good, in compromises sometimes...good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil." The computing principle is necessary here, too. The First Amendment is no coherent theory that points... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 páginas
...his authority. Men had a right to the advantages that government could confer. These advantages were often "in balances between differences of good, —...between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil."34 What prudent policy required could not be abstractly stated nor prescribed before the event.... | |
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The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.... 
