 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1822 - 554 pages
...conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...given, good indeed and valid only as tending to subject themselves and those, who act with them, to the Divine displeasure ; because morally there can be no... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1827 - 608 pages
...conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...given, good indeed and valid only as tending to subject themselves and those, who act with them, to the divine displeasure ; because morally there can be no... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud,rapine,and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1032 pages
...conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 558 pages
...no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither hy compact, covenant, or suhmission,— for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties ; nor hy any other means can arhitrary power he conveyed to any man. Those, who give to others such rights,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 562 pages
...conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence ; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...rights and their duties ; nor by any other means can arhitrary power be conveyed to any man. Those, who give to others such rights, perform acts, that are... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...conquest. Nor can any Sovereign have it by succession ; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence, neither by compact, covenant, or sub* mission, for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power, are alike criminal. There is no man but is bound... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...given, good indeed and valid only as tending to subject themselves, and those who act with them, to the divine displeasure ; because morally there can be no... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession, for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence; neither by compact, covenant, or submission,...given, good indeed and valid only as tending to subject themselves, and those who act with them, to the divine displeasure ; because morally there can be no... | |
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Neither by compact, covenant, or submission, — for men cannot covenant themselves out of their rights and their duties, — nor by any other means, can arbitrary power be conveyed to any man. Those who give to others such rights perform acts that are... 
