 All human Laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.  Writings and Speeches - Page 327by Edmund Burke - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1812 - 508 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with propriety and beauty, calls the Mother of Justice. All human Laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...understood, not of partial or limited, but of general and publick utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly from, our rational nature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1818 - 514 pages
...edicts of Princes, or the decrees of Judges. If it be admitted, that it is not the black letter and the King's Arms, that makes the Law, we are to look...understood, not of partial or limited, but of general and publick utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly from, our rational nature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with propriety and beauty, calls the Mother of Justice. All human laws are, " distresses, that I could no longer live in expecta"...affliction. " I never had the least idea or expectat publick utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly from', our rational nature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter the mode and application, hut have no power over the suhstance of original justice. The other foundation of law, which is utility, must he understood, not of partial or limited, hut of general and puhlic utility, connected in the same... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with propriety and beauty, calls the mother of justice. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...public utility, connected in the same manner with, and * Cicero de Legibus, lib. prim. 15 et 16. О rem diçnam, in qua nun modo dooti, verum etiam agrestes... | |
 | Nicholas Snethen - 1835 - 390 pages
...upon our common nature, and which Philo, with propriety, calls the mother justice. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...understood not of partial or limited, but of general or of public utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly from our rational nature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with propriety and beauty, calls the Mother of Justice. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...understood, not of partial or limited, but of general and publick utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly from, our rational nature... | |
 | Joseph Angus - Church and state - 1839 - 286 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with propriety and beauty, calls the Mother of Justice. AH human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter...which is utility, must be understood, not of partial and limited, but of general and public, utility, connected in the same manner with, and derived directly... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...nature, and which Philo, with ' propriety and beauty, calls the Mother of Justice. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...limited, but of general and public utility, connected with, and directly derived from our rational nature ; for any other utility may be that of ' a robber.'... | |
 | Charles Greville - Ireland - 1845 - 388 pages
...with which these prescriptive statutes are utterly incompatible. " All human laws," says Burke, " are, properly speaking, only declaratory ; they may alter...partial or limited, but of general and public utility."* The tyrant's plea of necessity for ruling this great portion of the empire with a rod of iron, was,... | |
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