 ... for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties ; nor by any other means can arbitrary power be conveyed to any man. Those who give to others such rights, perform acts that are void as they are given...  The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings - Page 101by Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - 1857Full view - About this book
 | History - 1833
...this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | Political Science - 1833
...conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud,rapine,and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Philosophy - 1834
...no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither hy compact, covenant, or suhmission, for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties ; nor hy any other means can arhitrary power he conveyed to any man. Those, who give to others such rights,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835
...this arhitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence...rights and their duties ; nor by any other means can arhitrary power be conveyed to any man. Those, who give to others such rights, perform acts, that are... | |
 | George Croly - 1840
...this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | George Croly - 1840
...this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or sub* mission, for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1845
...this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence;...covenant, or submission, for men cannot covenant ibemselves out of their rights and their duties ; nor by any other means can arbitrary power be conveyed... | |
 | Earl of Chatham William Pitt, Edmund Burke, Baron Thomas Erskine Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, E.C. & J. Biddle (Firm, Member of the Philadelphia bar - 1851 - 540 pages
...this arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties; nor by any other... | |
 | Warren Hastings - 1859
...which belonged to the sovereign that held the country before. He cannot have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine and violence ; neither by compact, covenant or submission, nor by any other means, can arbitrary power be conveyed to any .S^mo-o' man- Those who give and those... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Philosophy - 1860
...no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither hy compact, covenant, or suhmission, for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties : nor hy any other means can arhitrary power he conveyed to any man. Those, who give to others such rights,... | |
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