 | Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - 138 Seiten
...tradition in political designs. Burke (1955) believed that "we have made no discoveries, and . . . that no discoveries are to be made, in morality, nor...liberty, which were understood long before we were born" (97). He further suggested that "we are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his private stock... | |
 | John Avery - 1997 - 194 Seiten
...no progress among us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...liberty', which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 Seiten
...would dreadfully impede its progress. In the name of the people of England, you say, 'that we know we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 Seiten
...under enlightened faith in permanent progress. 'We know that we have made no discoveries,' he insisted, 'and we think that no discoveries are to be made,...nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood before we were born'. 117 Moreover, the seasoned Whig bared the dark secret of revolutionary fervour:... | |
 | David Carvounas - 2002 - 142 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born. "Burke, Reflections, 86. 10. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...especially, Burke saw no fundamental advance to be expected from the passage of time: We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty . . . 46 More generally, the very concept of "social science," which largely originated among those... | |
 | W. Wesley McDonald - 2004 - 260 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Clive Emsley - 2005 - 250 Seiten
...progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the... | |
 | Heather Glen, Paul Hamilton - 2006 - 7 Seiten
...firebreak or lightning-rod — a 'sullen resistance to innovation'; and declared: 'We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think that no discoveries...liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after . . . the silent tomb shall have imposed its law upon our... | |
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We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... 
