 The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and 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 discerned....  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 79by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 pages
...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 discerned. The rights of men in government are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...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...between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evi1. Political reason is a computing principle ; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 470 pages
...m^preportion as tbey-arg'metaphysicaliy 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 discerned. The rights_Qf-mcn in-governments are their advantages ; and these are often inbalances between differences... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...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...and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.—Reflect, on Rev. in France. THE REAL RIGHTS OF MAN. Far am I from denying in theory,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1886 - 494 pages
...proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible...advantages ; and these are often in balances between differ- \ ences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 pages
...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 discerned. The rights of men, in government, are their advantages: and these are often in balances between differences in good, in comparisons... | |
 | Cushman Kellogg Davis - Baccalaureate addresses - 1886 - 32 pages
...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 discerned. The rights of men, in government, are their advantages : and these are often in balances between differences in good, in... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1889 - 584 pages
...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...are often in balances between differences of good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle ; adding,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...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...advantages ; and these are often in balances between differi ences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and / evil, and sometimes, between evil... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1892 - 300 pages
...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 goo4 ," and in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political... | |
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