 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When 1 hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boosted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. e land tax act which raises your revenue ? that it...bravery and discipline ? No ! Surely no ! It is t When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 548 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...injituie.,of_imaiijs intricate : the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity : ajid therefore NO simple, disposition or direction of power...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and 83 boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
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The nature of man is intricate, the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity, and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs. 
