We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature: but such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive... The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Página 212por Edmund Burke - 1803Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 páginas
...body. Where it existed, this right was in Burke's words "one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it." On the supposition that the old corporation had been validly dissolved,... | |
| Ralph Lerner - 1994 - 164 páginas
...of our original nature," is disclosed by Burke to be "one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation" (A 3:82-83). Such examples, among many others, give added meaning to his proud assertion that he, Edmund... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 páginas
...But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...artificial political device that is inconsistent with the natural order of things. "Out of civil society nature knows nothing of it; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise than by very long training, brought at all to submit to it" (CM 59). Democracy, it may thus... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 páginas
...But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 páginas
...But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature knows nothing of it; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 754 páginas
...that ever has been or can be made on the principies of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society, nature knows nothing of it ; nor are men, even when arranged according to civil order, otherwise than by very long training, brought at all to submit to it." In the following passage, he... | |
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