 | 1872 - 396 pages
...we can show the same two classes of ideas exist, and constitute respective parties. Burke says — " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." Now the same may be said, and is said, of medical schools. Medical schools are a contrivance of human... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 750 pages
...Nation from communism and the hell of Hooverlsm. By Mr. Roosevelt's recognition of the principle that "government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," he cured many of the causes of communism, and while it may not be dead In America, it can never attain... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...al»tract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, mil of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution... | |
 | Providence (R.I.). City Council, Abraham Payne - Providence (R.I.) - 1881 - 144 pages
...liberty." Abstract propositions about government may no doubt have a certain value ; but, after all, government is ''a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." It must be confessed that the supply of wisdom has not always been equal to the demand, but it may... | |
 | Abraham Payne, Providence (R.I.). City Council - Providence (R.I.) - 1881 - 150 pages
...liberty." Abstract propositions about government may no doubt have a certain value ; but, after all, government is "a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." It must be confessed that the supply of wisdom has not always been equal to the demand, but it may... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 436 pages
...with greater efficiency and economy. We begin to see more clearly the truth of Burke's remark, that ' government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants,' and that ' men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.' It is dawning... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 680 pages
...with greater efficiency and economy. We begin to see more clearly the truth of Bnrke's remark, that ' government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants,' and that ' men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.' It is dawning... | |
 | John I. Jones - 1884 - 254 pages
...glory to augment. (30) The prisoner was condemned to receive a bastinado of one thousand strokes. (31) Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. (32) Brabbling curs never want sore ears. (33) A true friend does sometimes venture to be offensive.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Social problems - 1886 - 116 pages
...good or ill as they increase or lessen the sum thereof. In the words of one of its chief advocates, "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." Such is the rational system. It is far above the others. It contains the elements of truth. As a theory,... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - England - 1887 - 328 pages
...gouverner la *ocie~te. — GUIZOT. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human waits. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.— BUCKLE. ANY one reading the parliamentary debates of 1793 to 1798, and again those immediately preceding... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
