| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...rights of man." — Does Mr. Burke mean to deny that man has any rights ? If he does, then he muft mean that there are no fuch things as rights any where,...into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They floo. in fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred or a thoufand years, and produce what was then... | |
| 1791 - 618 pages
...the end of time ?' — ' The error of thofe who reafon by precedents drawn from antiquity, refpefting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough...into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They Hop in fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred or a thoufand years, and produce what was then... | |
| English literature - 1791 - 686 pages
...end of time ?— • The error of thofe who reafiVn by precedents drawn from antiquity., refpeâing the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They dp not gothe whole way. Ttieyftopin fomeof 'the intermediate fUges of an hundred or a Ihoufand years,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 pages
...by them Originally ? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents, drawn from antiquity, refpe.fting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough...: They ftop in fome of the intermediate ftages of a hundred, or a thoufand years, and produce what was then done as a rule for the prefent day. This... | |
| Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...man by them originally? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents, drawn from antiquity, refpefting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity : They do not go the wholes way : They flop in fome of the intermediate ftages of a hundred, or a thoufand years, and produce... | |
| John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...RIGHTS of Man, 1 791. f " The error of those who reason by precedent, drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough...into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then... | |
| France - 1811 - 662 pages
...man by them originally ? The error of thofe who rcafon by precedent drawn from antiquity, refpecting the rights of man is, that they do not go far enough...antiquity They do not go the whole way. They ftop i: fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred o a tho'.ifand years, and produce what was then dom... | |
| Lorenzo Dow - Christian life - 1814 - 666 pages
...The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the Rights of J\Ian,is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages, of a hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...No13 of the REVOLUTION DE PARIS, containing the events from the 3d to the 10th of October, 1789. aot go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 522 pages
...? The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of mail, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then... | |
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