Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick? Complete Works - Page 199by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though iu coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not any...practical defects which have discredited other forms. Kvfiry actual Stntf; is Corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers, living in the monarchal idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...practical defects which have discredited other forms*." Compare all this with the spirit and language of men seeking to be uncommon and to distinguish themselves... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system. What satire on government can equal the severity of...signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick ? Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men. Fear not, then, thou child infirm ; There's... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the timorous, the lock-and-bolt system. What satire on government can equal the severity of...censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for nges has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick ? Governments have their origin in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick 1 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties into which each State... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...discredited other forms. Every actual State is corrupt. Good i men must not obey the laws ioo well. What satire on gov- f ernment can equal the severity of censure... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...qualified to jndge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick? VOL. II. 8 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties into which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick? VOL. II. 8 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties into which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.1 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word, politic, which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not anf exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms. Every actual State is... | |
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