 Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 3061791Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 824 pages
...to make the fame change, they have the fame right. Juft the fame undoubtedly. That is, none at all. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, truft, engagement, or obligation. The conftitution of a country being once fettled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pages
...to make the fame change, they have the fame right. Juft the fame undoubtedly. That is, none at all. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, truft, engagement, or obligation, (i he constitution of a country being once fettled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...it is bad, ac- ' cording to our position and our purpose. Distrust is a defensive principle. DUTIES. NEITHER the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...or it is bad, according to our position and our purpose. Distrust is a defensive principle. DUTIES. NEITHER the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled... | |
 | France - 1811 - 662 pages
...to make the fame change, they have the fame right. Juft the fame undoubtedly. That is, none at all. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, truft, engagement, or obligation. The conftitution of a country being once fettled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...according to our position and our purpose. Distrust is a defensive principle. DUTIES. NEITHER the few/nor the many .have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with daty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The con stirution of a country being once settled... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...or it is bad, according to our position and our purpose. Distrust is a defensive principle. DUTIES. NEITHER the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled... | |
 | England - 1832 - 1102 pages
...right of altering even the whole frame of society, if such be their pleasure ? But Burke shews that neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by tin u- will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. And that as for number,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...to make the same change, they have the same right. Just the same undoubtedly. That is, none at all. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...extremes of prosperity. Desperate situations produce desperate councils, and desperate measures. DUTIES. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. The constitution of a country being once settled... | |
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