| Thomas Paine - 1793 - 44 pages
...opinions and habits of" thinking, it is no tonger,to he governed as before ; '• but it would not oaly be wrong, but bad 'policy to; " attempt by force, what ought to be accomplimed"by reafon. Rebellion confifts in forcibly oppofihg the': "general- will of a nation, whether... | |
| Thomas Hardy, Joseph Gurney - 1794 - 504 pages
...accomplifhed. " When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking^ " it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not " only be wrong, but...oppofing the general will of a nation whether by a " party or by a government. Tltere ought, therefore, to be in " every nation a method of occafionally... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 pages
...accomplifhed. When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad...oppofing the general will of a nation, whether by a party, or by a government. There ought, therefore, to be, in every nation, a method of occafionally... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1795 - 180 pages
...accomplifhed. When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad...oppofing the general will of a nation, whether by a party, or by a government. There ought, therefore, to be, in every nation, a method of occafionally... | |
| Thomas Hardy, Joseph Gurney - 1795 - 432 pages
...accomplifhed. " When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, * it is no longer to be governed as before; but it would not " only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what *c ought to be accomplifhed by reafon. Rebellion confifts in " forcibly oppofing the general will of... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...on thus : " When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, whether... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...on thus : " When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, whether... | |
| 1808 - 542 pages
...goes on—' When a nation changes its opinion. and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, whether... | |
| Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...thus : " When a NATION changes its opinion and ha" bits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed " as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but " bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be " accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in " forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, "... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pages
..." When a NATION changes its opinion and ha" bits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed " £s before; but it would not only be wrong, but " bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be " accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in " forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, "... | |
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