 Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 494by Edmund Burke - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1921 - 432 pages
...philosophers. It is set forth in terms in one of the noblest passages to be found in English prose : — ' Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poison* 28 mis weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poison,-* J 28 ous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate the|r father's life. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father-s life. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coflee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | 1811 - 584 pages
...philosophy. " Socicty," says he, i' is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts of mere occasional interests may be dissolved at pleasure, but the state ought...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or tome other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary mterest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisouous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...aged parent in pieces, and, put him inti the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poison 28 eus weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 pages
...to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by tbeir poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate...occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but (he state ought not 8 to to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 pages
...hack their aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate...pleasure. But the State ought not to be considered a mere partnership agreement, taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved at the... | |
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