 to deny its validity was, for him, to doubt .the wisdom of God. "Having disposed," he wrote, "and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but to His, He had, in and by that disposition, vitally subjected us to act the part which belongs...  Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham - Page 268by Harold Joseph Laski - 1920 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson - History - 1989 - 384 pages
...having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic. . . He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us” (“Appeal from the New to the Old Whlgs,” 1967: 54). We have rights, then, and they are a kind of... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence; and. . . having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to his, he has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which... | |
 | Kathryn Tanner - Religion - 1992 - 280 pages
...Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence,—and . . . having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs... | |
 | Richard Dagger - Political Science - 1997 - 273 pages
...having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic . . . He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us." 22 We have rights, then, and they are a kind of property, but a kind that attaches to whatever station... | |
 | A. John Simmons - Law - 2001 - 294 pages
...the Author of our place in the order of existence. ... He has in and by that disposition virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us. ... Parents may not be consenting to their moral relation; but, consenting or not, they are bound to... | |
 | Russell Kirk - Social Science - 2001 - 580 pages
...Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence; and that having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence; and that having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His, He has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...Author of our being is the Author of our place in the order of existence; and . . . having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to his, he has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjected us to act the part which... | |
 | Lewis Vaughn, Austin Dacey - Philosophy - 2003 - 244 pages
...unlimited. It is far better, he says, that people know their place in creation and understand that God has "subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned to us." Later criticism was spearheaded by the historian Carl Becker (1873-1945), who sees the Enlightenment... | |
 | Ian Crowe - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 260 pages
..."divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His." It is God's will that has "virtually subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us." Here, Burke clearly defines our place, and in so doing he emphatically rejects the concept of rights... | |
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