| Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...they were entitled by' the common condition of their nature ; for ' if,' says Burke, ' civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence, and law itself it only beneficence acting by rule. Men have a right to... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...they were entitled by the common condition of their nature ; for ' if,' says Burke, 'civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence, and law itself it only beneficence acting by rule. Men have a right to... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society the comprehensive dominion which the Divine Providence had put into our hands, instead of troubling institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Alen have a. right... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence, and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It ^^"•^•MMiV*MHIH*l**PVMH'MHIH***^^«M^flMMi|^iaB^9 is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...theory, full as far as any heart is from denying in practice, the real rights of man. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right ; it is an institution of beneficence, and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...theory, full as far as any heart is from denying in practice, the real rights of man. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right ; it is an institution of beneficence, and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right to... | |
| James Sedgwick - 1840 - 674 pages
...tyranny," said Mr. Markland ; " far from it. I am of opinion with Mr. Burke, that if civil society was made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. But, I also say, in the words of the same illustrious writer, that, as to the share of power, authority,... | |
| Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...those which arc real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule. Men have a right... | |
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