 | MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY - 1906
...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing,...by a Government, which we might expect in a country wit/tout Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we... | |
 | 1894 - 508 páginas
...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing,...necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one. Mr. Conway has followed the earliest editions and kept Paine's own spelling; manifest misprints and... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1900 - 244 páginas
...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions The first is a patron, the last a punisher. . . . Society in every state is a blessing,...necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . . sl The same distinction may yet be more clearly shown by a rather lengthy quotation from his... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1902 - 778 páginas
...courts for the damages he has suffered. " Society in every state is a blessing," says a great author, " but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary...government, which we might expect in a country without a government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer,"... | |
 | Paul Elsner - 1906 - 106 páginas
...Sense stehenden Grundsätzen: ,,Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" (The Writings of Thomas Paine, ed. Conway I 69) die weitgehendsten Schlüsse gezogen, die Paine in... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1907 - 530 páginas
...Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. . . . Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state,...necessary evil ; in its worst state, an intolerable one." The latter, which was mainly composed while Paine lay in prison under the revolutionary tyranny, is... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1907 - 530 páginas
...Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. . . . Society is in every state a blessing, but government, even in its best state,...necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." The latter, which was mainly composed while Paine lay in prison under the revolutionary tyranny, is... | |
 | James Schouler - 1908 - 328 páginas
...our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. . . . The first is a patron, the last a punisher. . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is a necessary evil." With more caustic denunciation I have heard an orator of my own day, a master of... | |
 | William H. Graves - 1917 - 220 páginas
...little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society in every state is a blessing, but Government,...worst state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, we are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government;... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - 332 páginas
...vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. "Society in every state is a blessing,...we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by the government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by... | |
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness ' positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.... 
