 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...fyftems of government." H " Hereditary fucceflion is a burlefquo upon monarchy." § " It requires fame talents to be a common mechanic} but to be a king...figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton." •Rights of Man, P. ii. p. zo. f Ibid. p. 21. Jlbid. || Ibid. p. 23. §Ibid. p. 24. * " When the mind... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 652 pages
...of all the fyftems of government." || *' Hereditary fucceffion is a burlefque upon monarchy." § " It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic;...but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man—a fort of breathing automaton." * Rights of Man, P. ii. p. 20. f Ibid. p. 21. t Ibid. D Ibid.... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 658 pages
...Hereditary fucceffion is a burlefque upon monarchy." § w It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic j but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton." • Rights of Man, P. ii. p. 20. t Ibid. p. si. I Ibid. U Ibid. p. 23. § Ibid, p, 24. 5 « When *... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...an office, whatever it may be, is fuperfluous or infignificant. Hereditary fuceeffion is a burlefque upon monarchy. It puts it in the moft ridiculous light,...fuperftition may laft a few years more, but it cannot long refill the awakened reafon and intereft of man. Having thus glanced at a few of the defefts of the... | |
 | John Wentworth - Pleading - 1797 - 570 pages
...an office which any child *' or ideot may fill. It requires fome talents to be a common me" chanic, but to be a king requires only the animal figure of...this fort of fuperftition may laft *' a few years, but it cannot long refift the awakened reafon *' and intereft of many" and in another part thereof... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 522 pages
...ridiculous light " by presenting it as an office, which any child " or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be " a common mechanic, but to be a King requires " only the animal figure of man, a sort of breathing " automaton. This sort of superstition may last a " few years more, but it cannot... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 516 pages
...ridiculous light "by presenting it as an office, which any child " or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be " a common mechanic, but to be a King requires " only the animal figure of man, a 'sort of breathmg "automaton. This sort of superstition may last a "few years more, but it cannot long... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 518 pages
...ridiculous light " by presenting it as an office, which any child " or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be " a, common mechanic, but to be a King requires " only the animal figure of man, a sort of breathing " automaton. This sort of superstition may last ^ " few years more, but it cannot... | |
 | Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office, which any child or ideot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic, but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man, a sort of breathing automaton, this sort of superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot long... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...following that of chivalry, and Mr. Burke was dressing for the funeral,' — or that ' it requires some talents to be a common mechanic, but to be a king requires only the animal figure of a man,' and other similar declamations, which formed in effect the seditious sting of that unhappy... | |
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Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light by presenting it as an office which any child or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king requires only the animal figure... 
