 | Francis Plowden - 1792 - 706 oldal
...fyftems of government." H " Hereditary fucceflion is a burlefquo upon monarchy." § " It requires fame talents to be a common mechanic} but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton." •Rights of Man, P. ii. p. zo. f Ibid. p. 21. Jlbid. || Ibid. p. 23.... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1792 - 652 oldal
...fyftems of government." || *' Hereditary fucceffion is a burlefque upon monarchy." § " It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man—a fort of breathing automaton." * Rights of Man, P. ii. p. 20. f Ibid. p. 21. t Ibid. D Ibid.... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1792 - 658 oldal
...Hereditary fucceffion is a burlefque upon monarchy." § w It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic j but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton." • Rights of Man, P. ii. p. 20. t Ibid. p. si. I Ibid. U Ibid. p. 23.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 180 oldal
...ridiculous light, by prefenting it as an office which any child or ideot may fill. It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic ; but to be a king, requires only the animal figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton. This fort of fuperftition may laft a few years more, but it cannot long... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 oldal
...ridiculous light, by prefenting it as an office which any child or ideot may fill. It requires fome talents to be a common mechanic ; but to be a king, requires only the animal figure of man — a fort of breathing automaton. This fort of fuperftition may laft a few years more, but it cannot long... | |
 | John Wentworth - 1797 - 570 oldal
...an office which any child *' or ideot may fill. It requires fome talents to be a common me" chanic, but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man, ** a fort of breathing automaton ! this fort of fuperftition may laft *' a few years, but it cannot long... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 516 oldal
...people, as if they were' "flocks and herds." " Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon mo" narchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light "by presenting...requires " only the animal figure of man, a 'sort of breathmg "automaton. This sort of superstition may last a "few years more, but it cannot long resist... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1813 - 518 oldal
...property. To inherit " a government, is to inherit the people, as if they " were flocks and herds." " Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon mo.".narchy....breathing " automaton. This sort of superstition may last ^ " few years more, but it cannot long resist the ".awakened reason and interest of man ;" then, "in... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1818 - 732 oldal
...heritable property. To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds." " Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy....requires some talents to be a common mechanic, but to b* a king requires only the animal figure of man, a sort of breathing automaton. This sort of superstition... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 oldal
...aristocracy was following that of chivalry, and Mr. Burke was dressing for the funeral,' — or that ' it requires some talents to be a common mechanic,...but to be a king requires only the animal figure of a man,' and other similar declamations, which formed in effect the seditious sting of that unhappy... | |
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Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office, which any child or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king, requires only the animal... 
