 It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy.  The American Jurist - Page 2781833Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme 29 necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme 29 necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity...necessity is no exception to the rule ; because this necessityitself is a part too of that moral and physical disposition of things to which man must be... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...first and supreme necessity only, — a necessity which is not chosen, but chooses, — a necessity that admits no discussion, and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy. » » * * But if that which is only submission to necessity, should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, an necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity...of things to which man must be obedient by consent of force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity...that admits no discussion, and demands no evidence, which-alone can justify a resort to anarchy. This necessity is no exception to the rule ; because this... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity, that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity...of things, to which man must be obedient by consent or force. But, if that, which is only submission to necessity, should be made the object of choice,... | |
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