 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1776 - 608 pàgines
...; for when we fuffer, or are expofed to the fame miferieg by a. gt'vernauut, which we might expefl in a country -without government! our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnilh the means by which we fuffer. Government, like drefs, is the badge of loft innocence; the palaces... | |
 | William Grisenthwaite - 1825 - 314 pàgines
...work, which I am now examining, Mr. Paine, in his Common Sense, had written such a sentence as this! " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence, the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise !" Such are the inconsistencies of Mr. Paine. They cannot be... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 pàgines
...one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened...of lost innocence ; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly... | |
 | 1832 - 572 pàgines
...evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the ' bowers of paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, ' uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law' giver ; but, that not being the case, he finds it... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pàgines
...happiness. — Economist. CHAPTER III. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. SECTION I. THE ORIGIN AND OBJECTS OP GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 pàgines
...one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver ; hut that not being the case, he finds it necessary... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pàgines
...one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened...are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof... | |
 | George Lippard - 1847 - 558 pàgines
...at this book of " no particular merit :" for a work so weak, this is a somewhat forcible sentence. " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence...are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." Listen to Common Sense on Monarchy : " For monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pàgines
...evil, for when we suffer from the miseries of a government our calamity U heightened by the reflection that we furnish the means by which, we suffer. Government, like dress, is a badge of fallen innocence ; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1856 - 542 pàgines
...suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country wthont government^ our calamity is heightened by reflecting...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver ; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary... | |
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Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without... 
