 By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 79by Edmund Burke - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...fast in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional ht inconsistent with virtue, and the first of all virtues, prudence. transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 456 pages
...greatest heroes. CANNING. ANALOGY TO NATURAL LAWS IN THE TRANSMISSION OF GOVERNMENT. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...her age. — ( The Histery of Engbsh Poetry.) EDMUND BURKE, b. «730, d. 1797. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit, our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Christianity - 1891 - 220 pages
...differing motives, yet all bound together by the power of great and enduring ideas. "By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional policy working after the pattern of Nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property... | |
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