 | New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council - Constitutional history - 1853 - 248 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract _ perfection ; but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything,... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. which may and do exist in independence of it, and exist in much greater clearness,...a much greater degree of abstract perfection ; but this abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of ab- \ stract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their prac- \ tical defect. By having a... | |
 | Thomas Hare - Elections - 1859 - 412 pages
...which do not so much as suppose its existence? — rights which are absolutely repugnant to it ?" " Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...essential to him. That he may se cure some liherty, he makes a surrender ir trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of ahstract perfecyon : hut their ahstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1864 - 588 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 604 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide I for human... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 pages
...essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Government is not made in virtue of natural rights,...their abstract perfection is their practical defect. Ey having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to... | |
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Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. 
