 | R. T. Allen - 294 páginas
...as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generation which preceded it. The vacuity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.9 But the Social Contract itself, which Paine like Locke takes to be an historical event,... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 páginas
...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...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. . . I am contending for the rights... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 páginas
...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...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688,... | |
 | Stephanie Barczewski - 2000 - 290 páginas
...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...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.' Paine reserved particular contempt for the Middle Ages, 50 Stella Cottrell, 'The Devil on Two Sticks:... | |
 | Gary Brent Madison, Paul Fairfield, Ingrid Harris - 2000 - 227 páginas
..."Every age and generation must be free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generation which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies." Tyranny — illiberalism — is indeed the issue in question, and it does not in the last analysis... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 2000 - 600 páginas
...absolutism no less complete than that of James II. It amounted to 'governing beyond the grave .. . the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.' 261 Despite its title, Paine's book... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...as ... absurd as an hereditary author'. 36 Power came from the people and must ever dwell in them: 'The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.' 37 Paine jeered at the very words prince and peer which, depending as they did upon the nonsense of... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 páginas
...is as ... absurd as an hereditary author'.36 Power came from the people and must ever dwell in them: 'The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the...grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.'37 Paine jeered at the very words prince and peer which, depending as they did upon the... | |
 | 2001 - 244 páginas
...act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumprion of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies" (Document 6.2). Reason, not tradition, should be the judge of what is right and just in government.... | |
 | Kristin Shrader-Frechette - 2002 - 284 páginas
...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...tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. 53 Those who favor permanent, geological... | |
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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. 
