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  • I'm far from convinced, then, about conservatism's intellectual credentials once it strays from the safe territory of utopias and revolutionary change, but Quinton's article is an excellent read.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • The girls' health care is covered by the State of California for now, but if Quinton's salary increases or Megann goes back to work, they will most likely find themselves in the unenviable position of losing state coverage and having to buy private insurance, to say nothing of paying for childcare for three kids.

    Jane Chafin: Artists Step Up to the Plate to Help a Child in Need Jane Chafin 2011

  • Curiously, then, Quinton's account of conservatism implies a type of moral and political relativism with respect to substantive questions.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • The girls' health care is covered by the State of California for now, but if Quinton's salary increases or Megann goes back to work, they will most likely find themselves in the unenviable position of losing state coverage and having to buy private insurance, to say nothing of paying for childcare for three kids.

    Jane Chafin: Artists Step Up to the Plate to Help a Child in Need Jane Chafin 2011

  • The girls' health care is covered by the State of California for now, but if Quinton's salary increases or Megann goes back to work, they will most likely find themselves in the unenviable position of losing state coverage and having to buy private insurance, to say nothing of paying for childcare for three kids.

    Jane Chafin: Artists Step Up to the Plate to Help a Child in Need Jane Chafin 2011

  • Supplementing Quinton's justification of traditionalism with some concepts from physics, these are the substantive theoretical claims about the nature of human society which conservatism tacitly assumes.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Moreover, Quinton's defence of traditionalism does, in fact, tacitly presuppose a substantive theory of human society, even though this tacit theory is used to derive methodological, rather than substantive, political prescriptions.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • The girls' health care is covered by the State of California for now, but if Quinton's salary increases or Megann goes back to work, they will most likely find themselves in the unenviable position of losing state coverage and having to buy private insurance, to say nothing of paying for childcare for three kids.

    Jane Chafin: Artists Step Up to the Plate to Help a Child in Need Jane Chafin 2011

  • Dinner was all right, though the wines were no more than passable, but Quinton's a genius and I'd have made a contribution in any case.

    The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004

  • "It only had a corner snipped off," said Flambeau, "and I understand that all Quinton's paper was cut that way."

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

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