 | John Martin Vincent - Conspiracy - 1909 - 670 pages
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance, derived to us from our forefathers, and transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...whatever to any other more general or prior right." Even the revolution had been made " to preserve ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient... | |
 | 1915 - 470 pages
...reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have...franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. . . . Always acting as if in the presence of canonised forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 470 pages
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage,... | |
 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - Democracy - 1918 - 538 pages
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be es, yet I love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown; an inheritable peerage;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy effect of following... | |
 | Hannah Arendt - Political Science - 1973 - 580 pages
...and assert our liberties, as an enlailed inherilance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...whatever to any other more general or prior right." The concept of inheritance, applied to the very nature of liberty, has been the ideological basis from... | |
 | Franklin Le Van Baumer - History - 1978 - 824 pages
...vol. Ill, pp. 274-6, 307-1 3, 345-7, 358-9. 491 EDMUNDBURKE: Reflections on the Revolution in France have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage,...franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection, — or rather the happy effect of... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown; an inheritable peerage;... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown; an inheritable peerage;... | |
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You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... 
