 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When 1 hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 218 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boosted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 548 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...injituie.,of_imaiijs intricate : the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity : ajid therefore NO simple, disposition or direction of power...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and 83 boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate ; the objects of society are of the greatest...to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions,... | |
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The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. 
