 | Roland Knyvet Wilson - Political science - 1911 - 360 pages
...inadequate ends for so magnificent an instrument as the State— " The State ought not to be looked upon as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, cal1co or tobacco, or some such other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler - Conservatism - 1914 - 184 pages
...to the theoretical and revolutionary constitution-framers, whose work in France he so abominated. " Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...pleasure — but the State ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or... | |
 | William Cunningham - Economic history - 1917 - 148 pages
...remain an Englishman3. It is at this point that Burke joins issue with the doctrine of Locke. He says: "Society is indeed a "contract. Subordinate contracts...plea"sure — but the State ought not to be considered "nothing better than a partnership agreement in "a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco or... | |
 | Arthur Ritchie Lord - Political science - 1921 - 352 pages
...necessary consent of fellow-citizens which had dominated the theory from the beginning. To Burke ' Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...other such low concern, to be taken up for a little 1 ch. xiii. 6. temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked... | |
 | Nathaniel Micklem, Herbert Morgan - Christian sociology - 1921 - 300 pages
...humanity but to our country itself."* * Mazzini, Duties of Man, chapter v., cf. also Burke : — " Society is indeed a contract; subordinate contracts...pleasure — but the State ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper or coffee, calico or tobacco, or some... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 pages
...Trinity Monday to return to the attitude of Burke. "Society," he maintained — and our College is a society — "is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...pleasure, but the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 pages
...to return to the attitude of Burke. " Society," he maintained—and our College is a society—"is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects...pleasure, but the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, or even like the " large utterance " of one of the older Greek philosophers : Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, tobacco, or some such other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 366 pages
...Wordsworth's Ode to Duty, or even like the " large utterance " of one of the older Greek philosophers : Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, tobacco, or some such other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Philosophy, Modern - 1925 - 376 pages
...of the State, what time has shown to be the real purpose, the final cause, of its foundation: — ' Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts,...pleasure. But the State ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or... | |
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Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure, but the State ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or... 
