 | Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 ページ
...uniformity of all metaphysical abstractions: "These metaphysical rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are by...laws of nature, refracted from their straight line." 62 This simile from the Reflections was repeated three years later in parliament: "Laws, he said, were... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 ページ
...rights and cultural difference: These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays oflight which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their stra1ght line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive... | |
 | Antonio Rosmini - 2007 - 248 ページ
...never be written" and "freedom is a gift of the kings."13 Nor did he agree with Burke's statement that "in the gross and complicated mass of human passions...becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in their simplicity of their original direction."14 Contrary to Burke, Rosmini affirms that "the best... | |
 | Sarah Luria - 2006 - 250 ページ
...man's creation; since then the line between God, country, and man has become quite complex, or bent: "In the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of man undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 ページ
...patterns of approved utility before hia eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight liae. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 ページ
...patterns of approved utility before hia eyes. These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight liae. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights... | |
 | 484 ページ
...certain characteristic faults.' MARCEL PROUST Ideas, wrote Burke, 'entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line'.1 The ideas discussed in this essay are those of the Protestant Reformers, the Calvinist Puritans,... | |
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These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. 
