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; keeping... The works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 394by Edmund Burke - 1834Full view - About this book
| Robert P. Irvine - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 212 pages
...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...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. (Burke 1968: 119-20) This explicitly political appropriation of the rhetoric of domesticity in Burke... | |
| Peter Viereck - Political Science - 200 pages
...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...mutually reflected charities. our state, our hearths, our sepulchers, and our altars. . . . We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon... | |
| Eileen Hunt Botting - Social Science - 2012 - 268 pages
...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...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. 54 Again, Burke draws a parallel between the family and the state. He uses love of family as a "philosophic... | |
| Social Science - 2006 - 390 pages
...up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws in the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable,...combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearthe, our sepulchres, and our altars."8 Thus the nation state as it originated in Europe in the... | |
| Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 288 pages
...families, saying that the British bind up "the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties, adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom...with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflecting charities our states, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars,"55 and the last words... | |
| Daniel I. O'Neill - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 306 pages
...philosophy, Burke 's fundamental understanding of the basis of morality had not changed: "Nature" calls in "the aid of her unerring and powerful instincts,...the fallible and feeble contrivances of our reason" (8:84) in accordance with God's mysterious wisdom, thereby providing the common ground for the shared... | |
| Boyd Winchester - Constitutional law - 1891 - 500 pages
...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...state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars." Switzerland and the United States in their organic law and its application, while presenting many and... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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...mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchers, and our altars. Through the same plan of a conformity to nature in our artificial institutions,... | |
| 1846 - 438 pages
...of a relation in blood ; bending up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic tics ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our...cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually-reflected charities, our State, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altare.— Burke. CONTENTS.... | |
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