| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 390 pages
...the most worthy, by. the free and incorrupt sufierage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us, that, in a large...society, the election of a monarch can never devolve on the wisest, or most numerous part of the people. The army is the only order of men sufficiently... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us, that in a large...wisest, or to the most numerous part of the people ; that the superior prerogative of birth, when it has obtained the sanction of time and popular opinion,... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 622 pages
...hereditary way :' his private interests, very probably, assisting him in the perception of the truth, that, ' in a large society, the election of a monarch can never devolve to the wisest, or the most numerous part of the people ;' while 'that the superior prerogative of birth, when it has... | |
| Pierre François Merlet - French language - 1837 - 314 pages
...on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us, that in a large...soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery r renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil, constitution. Justice, humanity, or... | |
| 1846 - 780 pages
...on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us, that in a large...wisest, or to the most numerous, part of the people ; that the superior prerogative of birth, when it has obtained the sanction of time and popular opinion,... | |
| P. F. Merlet - 1858 - 188 pages
...on the most worthy by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience ' overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us that, in a large...numerous part of the people. The army is the only order 8 of men sufficiently united to conçui' in 9 sentimeuts, and powerful enough to impose them on the... | |
| 1859 - 682 pages
...on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us that in a large...powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow citizens ; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders... | |
| Civil service - 366 pages
...on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community. Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teaches us that, in a large society, the election of a monarch c&n never devolve to the wisest or to the most numerous part of the people. The army is the only order... | |
| English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...elected." "Experience overturns these airy fabrics, and teachos us that in a large society the ch\'tii.m of a monarch can never devolve to the wisest or to the most numerous part of the people." — Gibbon. CHOKE. SUFFOCATE. SMOTHER. STIFLE. STRANGLE. CHOKE (AS aceocjan, from eeac jani) is a general... | |
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