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" All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Government,... "
The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on subjects ... - Page 55
de Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810
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The Life of Thomas Paine: With a History of His Literary ..., Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1892 - 408 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.' ...' The time is not very distant when England will laugh at itself for sending to Holland, Hanover,...
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Rights of Man

Thomas Paine - 1906 - 172 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.1 With respect to the second head, that of being inadequate to the purposes for which government...
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography, Volume 1

Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 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 is it to be endured, says the Attorneygeneral, that the people of this country are to be told that...
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Thomas Paine - 1921 - 314 pages
...no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Governmant, 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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Romantic Prose of the Early Nineteenth Century

Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 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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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy

Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...things may be called, have no other signif1cant 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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Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76): Common Sense / The American ...

Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 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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Britain in the Nineteenth Century

Howard Martin - 1996 - 422 pages
...heritable throne ... 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. Hereditary succession ... puts [monarchy] in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...by law. The Rights of Man 1 1 79 1 ) I All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny . . . To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were Hocks and herds. The Rights of Man pt. 2 ( 1 792) г I compare it to something kept behind a curtain,...
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Paine: Political Writings

Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 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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