 It would be hard to point out any error more truly subversive of all the order and beauty, of all the peace and happiness, of human society, than the position, that any body of men have a right to make what laws they please ; or that laws can derive any...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 324by Edmund Burke - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1812 - 508 pages
...derive any authority from their institution merely and independent of the quality of the subject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of State, or .preservation of the Constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that Constitution; but can never touch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1813 - 600 pages
...any authority from their institution, merely and independent of the quality of the subject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution ; but can never touch... | |
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...arguments of policy, reuon of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may, indeed, impeach the...constitution ; but can never touch this immovable principle." — BUREE. Tract on Popery Lava. " Jam vero illud stultissimum, existimare omniajusta esse, quee scitasint... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...nature, and in giving impressed an invariable law upon it. It would be hard to point out any.errour 09> 9> favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution'; but can never touch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...nature, and in giving impressed an invariable law upon it. It would be hard to point out any errour more truly subversive of all the order and beauty,...preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution ; but can never touch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...any authority from their institution, merely and independent of the quality of the suhject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can he pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution ; hut... | |
 | Nicholas Snethen - 1835 - 390 pages
...any authority from their institution merely, and independent of the quality of the subject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation...may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution ; bnt can never touch this inimoveable principle. This seems to be, indeed, the doctrine which Hobbs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...any authority from their institution, merely and independent of the quality of the subject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution \ but can never touch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 660 pages
...nature, and in giving impressed an invariable law upon it. It would be hard to point out any errour more truly subversive of all the order and beauty,...preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may indeed impeach the frame of that constitution ; but can never touch... | |
 | Scotland - 1842 - 1552 pages
...any authority from thrir institution merely, and Independent of the quality of the subject matter. No arguments of policy, reason of state, or preservation of the constitution, can be pleaded in favour of such a practice. They may, indeed, impeach the frame of thai constitution ; but can never... | |
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