| Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 232 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 824 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| 1791 - 612 pages
...of rude nature, (fays Mr. Burke,) there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in th;mfelvcs have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. But in fuch a di'lUuiion of an ancient fociety, as hath taken place in France, amonglt men fo diibanded,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing &s a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal ficYions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| History - 1795 - 688 pages
...lie fame. IN a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fanions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pages
...PEOPLE. In a fiate of rude nature there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the ' ! idea idea of a ^brporatioiti It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...distinctness, an idea of what it is we mean, when we say the PEOPLE. 53 In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...distinctness, an idea of what it is we mean, when we say the PEOPLE. In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves...people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made like all other legal fictions by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
| France - 1811 - 662 pages
...PEOPLE. In a ftate of rude nature, there is no fuch thing as a people. A number of men in themfelves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement. What the particular nature... | |
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