 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.  MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE - Страница 102написао/ла W. T. Sherwin - 1819 - 232 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 страница
...hereafter governed, and who shall govern it. Every age and generation is and must be (as a matter of right) as free to act for itself in all cases, as the age and generation that preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826 - 594 страница
...settled," and then,. conscious of the weakness of his argument, he falls violently on Paine's theory, that every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it ; a theory which will not now be easily shaken, until men have... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 страница
...neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. — 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... | |
 | Thomas E. Skidmore - 1829 - 420 страница
...neither the right nor the power to • do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves. " null and void. 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,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 страница
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. 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,... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 страница
...family of man throughout all ages." " Every age and generation, is, and must be, as a matter of right, as free to act for itself in all cases, as the age and generation that preceded it." "Man has no property in man; neither has one generation a property in the generations... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 страница
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in till cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1837 - 716 страница
...the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, aro in themselves null and void Every a£e 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... | |
 | Gilbert Vale - 1841 - 242 страница
...right to enter into any agreement or contract respecting the government of posterity, for, say she, ' every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases, as the v / age and generation which preceded it." A more self-evident position than this could not have been... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 страница
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. 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... | |
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