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Writings and Speeches, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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The Essentials of Prose Composition

James Morgan Hart - English language - 1902 - 242 pages
...it is anything but obscure: If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must he its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 24

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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Selections of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 468 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things; and how can any man claim, under...
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Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H ...

William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must...convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...contemplation the civil social man, and no other. It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of [50 legislative, judicial, or executory power...
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