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" Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great " primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible World, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable,... "
Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ... - Page 29
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Philosophy and Living

Ralph Blumenau - Philosophers - 2002 - 644 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible with the invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place. It is to be noted that nowhere does Burke describe, as Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau had done, how such...
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Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement 1945-65

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen - Conservatism - 2002 - 342 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place." 9 George Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), p. 126. 10 In Frank S. Meyer...
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The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy

Marjorie Kelly - Business & Economics - 2001 - 290 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...and all moral natures each in their appointed place" (p. 34). These'lower orders" to be held in their place, Herzog wrote, included "women, blacks, Jews,...
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Environmentalism: Critical Concepts, Volume 4

David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - Nature - 2003 - 452 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures. connecting the visible and invisible world. according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures. each in their appointed place.6 The contract Burke has in mind is hardly an explicit contract. for it is "between those who...
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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.34 The conception of the social contract expressed in this passage is a world apart from that...
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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

Saree Makdisi - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 422 pages
...linking the lower with the higher orders, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...holds all physical and all moral natures, each in its appointed place. . . . This necessity is no exception to the rule; because this necessity itself...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...without reflection' and obliges us to observe 'the great primaeval contract of eternal society [. . .] which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place'. '5 Notoriously, Wordsworth showed increasing admiration for Burke as he grew older. The Prelude, however,...
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Political Thinkers: From Aristotle to Marx

John B. Morrall - Philosophy - 2004 - 162 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. 1 ' Burke's contract, then, is quite different to the logical construct of other writers. It is permanent,...
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The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative ...

Chilton Williamson - Conservatism - 2004 - 360 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place. Today, a twenty-first-century reader, well accustomed to the shallow vulgarity, ignorance, and mendacity...
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Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders

Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 500 pages
...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place" (195). Here, "each contract of each particular state" is explicitly tied to the "chain of being." For...
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