 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...their daily lives. Here again we have a notion that permeates the Reflections. The English, Burke says, "have given to our frame of polity the image of a...fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections" (3:275). It is most concisely formulated, however, in another of Burke's works, one which Wordsworth... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 pages
...forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance we have given to our...laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres,... | |
 | Mitchell G. Ash, William R. Woodward - Psychology - 1989 - 344 pages
...against chaos. Burke also considered that society was best ordered when it followed the familial pattern: "we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation of blood, binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties." He, too, believed... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - Political Science - 1989 - 304 pages
...occur in that order in the passages that have been quoted? "In this choice of inheritance," Burke says, "we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood." 10 That is, we have made the state a family; but have we not done so by constituting it a family in... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - Political Science - 1989 - 324 pages
...occur in that order in the passages that have been quoted? 'In this choice of inheritance', Burke says, 'we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood.'10 That is, we have made the state a family; but have we not done so by constituting it a family... | |
 | Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - Architecture - 1991 - 438 pages
...forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance we have given to our...charities, our state. our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.8 For a more theoretical assessment and justification of these and similar sentiments I refer... | |
 | James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - Political Science - 1991 - 448 pages
...had tradition established in the British Isles? As part of their inheritance the British had adopted "our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family...mutually reflected charities our state, our hearths, our sepulchers, and our altars."" Burke wants to hold onto all those institutions not simply to preserve... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives. ... In this choice of inheritance we have given to our...their combined and mutually reflected charities, our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Butler 40) In Coleridge's 1795 Introductory Address,... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - History - 1995 - 378 pages
...Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), has in its option for the hereditary descent of titles 'given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood'.32 'Nations', he writes in Thoughts on the Present Discontents, 'are not primarily ruled by... | |
 | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 331 pages
...power binding up the transitory parts of the microcosmic body should be translatable without loss to "the image of a relation in blood; binding up the...fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections." Victor explains his dilemma as follows: "I created a rational creature, and was bound towards him,... | |
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections... 
