| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...man by them originally ? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents drawn from antiquity, refpe&ing the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They floo. in fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred or a thoufand years, and produce what... | |
| 1791 - 618 pages
...the end of time ?' — ' The error of thofe who reafon by precedents drawn from antiquity, refpefting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They Hop in fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred or a thoufand years, and produce what... | |
| Thomas Paine - France - 1791 - 358 pages
...man by them originally ? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents drawn from antiquity, refpe&ing the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They ftop in fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred or a thoufand years, and produce what... | |
| English literature - 1791 - 686 pages
...end of time ?— • The error of thofe who reafiVn by precedents drawn from antiquity., refpeâing the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They dp not gothe whole way. Ttieyftopin fomeof 'the intermediate fUges of an hundred or a Ihoufand years,... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1795 - 170 pages
...by them Originally ? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents, drawn from antiquity, refpe.fting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity : They do not go the whole way : They ftop in fome of the intermediate ftages of a hundred, or a thoufand years, and produce what... | |
| Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...man by them originally? The error of thofe who reafon by precedents, drawn from antiquity, refpefting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity : They do not go the wholes way : They flop in fome of the intermediate ftages of a hundred, or a thoufand years, and produce... | |
| John Dickinson - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...they have a right to exist." RIGHTS of Man, 1 791. f " The error of those who reason by precedent, drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man,...far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what... | |
| France - 1811 - 662 pages
...man by them originally ? The error of thofe who rcafon by precedent drawn from antiquity, refpecting the rights of man is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity They do not go the whole way. They ftop i: fome of the intermediate ftages of an hundred o a tho'.ifand years, and produce what... | |
| Lorenzo Dow - Christian life - 1814 - 666 pages
...admitted, certain facts, or first principles, or data must be established or admitted for its confirmation. The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the Rights of J\Ian,is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 482 pages
...has rights, the question then will be, what are those rights, and how came man by them originally ? The error of those who reason by precedents drawn...antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is, that they do *An account of the expedition to Versailles may be seen in No. 13 of the REVOLUTION DE PARIS, containing... | |
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