...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible with the invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place. It is to be noted that nowhere does Burke describe, as Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau had done, how such...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place." 9 George Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), p. 126. 10 In Frank S. Meyer...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...and all moral natures each in their appointed place" (p. 34). These'lower orders" to be held in their place, Herzog wrote, included "women, blacks, Jews,...

...linking the lower with the higher natures. connecting the visible and invisible world. according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures. each in their appointed place.6 The contract Burke has in mind is hardly an explicit contract. for it is "between those who...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.34 The conception of the social contract expressed in this passage is a world apart from that...

...linking the lower with the higher orders, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...holds all physical and all moral natures, each in its appointed place. . . . This necessity is no exception to the rule; because this necessity itself...

...without reflection' and obliges us to observe 'the great primaeval contract of eternal society [. . .] which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place'. '5 Notoriously, Wordsworth showed increasing admiration for Burke as he grew older. The Prelude, however,...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. 1 ' Burke's contract, then, is quite different to the logical construct of other writers. It is permanent,...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place. Today, a twenty-first-century reader, well accustomed to the shallow vulgarity, ignorance, and mendacity...

...linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath...all moral natures, each in their appointed place" (195). Here, "each contract of each particular state" is explicitly tied to the "chain of being." For...