| United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...territories, and the numbers of his people. His principle of universality, therefore, cannot be made, by the mere agency of his power, to extend beyond the inhabitants...change his own purposes. He is not infallible : he is liable to mistake the means of effecting his own objects. He is not immortal: his successor accedes... | |
| Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...territories, and the numbers of his people. His principle of universality, therefore, cannot be made, by the mere agency of his power, to extend beyond the inhabitants...change his own purposes. He is not infallible : he is liable to mistake the means of effecting his own objects. He is not immortal : his successor succedes... | |
| Weights and measures - 1971 - 326 pages
...territories, and the numbers of his people. His principle of universality, therefore, cannot be made, by the mere agency of his power, to extend beyond the inhabitants.... . . The power of the legislator is limited over the will and actions of his subjects. His conflict with them is desperate, when he counteracts their... | |
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