| Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1818 - 732 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds." (Page 27, 8vo. edition.) — " How irrational then is the hereditary system, which establishes channels... | |
| Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...can obtain over another, is to make laws by which he shall be bound." And Paine says, that — " To inherit a government, is to inherit the people as if they were flocks and herds." (vii. 13.) If some are lazy and dissolute, whilst others are industrious and temperate, and the latter... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds. With respect to the second head, that of being inadequate to the purposes for which government is necessary,... | |
| 1851 - 394 pages
...should deal beforehand with our descendants, as with brutes who would have neither will nor right ! To inherit a government is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds. We are wrong in reproaching kings for their ferocity, their brutal apathy, the oppression of the people,... | |
| William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...should deal beforehaud with our descendants, as with brutes who would have neither will nor right ! To inherit a government is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds. We are wrong in reproaching kings for their ferocity, their brutal apathy, the oppression of the people,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1856 - 168 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were nocks and herds. With respect to the second head, that of being inadequate to the purposes for which... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1870 - 514 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds." And in another part thereof, according to the tenor and effect following ; (that is to say), " This... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1870 - 504 pages
...called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit M government is to inherit the people as if they were flocks and herds." And is it to be endured, says the Attorney-General, that the people of this country are to be told... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1876 - 622 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds." And in another part thereof, according to the tenor and effect following; that is to say, "This convention... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1892 - 300 pages
...things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds. With respect to the second head, that of being inadequate to the purposes for which government is necessary,... | |
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