 Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.  King Mammon and the Heir Apparent - Page 119by George A. Richardson - 1896 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and prefumption of governing beyond the grave, is the moft ridiculous and infolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man ; neither...to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to difpofe of the people of the prefeht day, or to bind or to... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1791 - 358 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and prefumption of governing beyond the grave, is the mod ridiculous and infolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man ; neither...to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to difpofe of the people of the prefent day, or to bind or to... | |
 | 1791 - 618 pages
...preceded it. The vanity and prefumption of governing beyond the grave, is the mod ridiculous and infolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man ; neither...generations which are to follow. The parliament or the peopleof 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to difpofe of the people of the prefent day,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 180 pages
...it. The Vanity and prefumption of governing beyond the grave, is the moft frcpojltroM and infolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in Man — neither has any generation a property in the generations that are to follow. Alegiflature,or the peopleof any antecedent period, had no more right to difpofe... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 pages
...prefumption of governing beyond the grave, is the moft prejiofterous and infolent of all tyrannies. Man t has no property in Man — neither has any generation a property in the generations that are to follow. Alegiflature, or the peopleof any antecedent period, had no more right to difpofe... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 pages
...matter of right) as free to act for itself in all cases, as the age and generation that preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...tyrannies. Man has no property in man, neither has one generation a property in the generations that are to follow. In the first part of Rights of Man,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 pages
...generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. JIan has no property in man ; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pages
...generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it . The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...a 'property in the generations which are to follow Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...matter of right, as free to act for itself in all cases, as the age and generation that preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...tyrannies. Man has no property in man, neither has one generation a property in the generations that are to follow. — (Princtp. of Govt.) 108. And when... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 pages
...generation must be as free to act for itself, in till cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ndiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property... | |
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