 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Christian sociology - 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 - Political science - 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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 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 - France - 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 - Freedom of the press - 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 - Freedom of the press - 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 - Law - 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 - France - 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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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,... 
