 | 1921 - 432 pages
...philosophers. It is set forth in terms in one of the noblest passages to be found in English prose : — ' Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...living, those who are dead and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...cannot be obtained but in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who arc living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state, is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...the necessity of this union; and that, therefore, is the solid and natural foundation, as well ment in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...those, who are dead, and those, who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society,... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...generations, it becomex a partnership not only between those, who are. living, but between those, who arc living, those, who are dead, and those, who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society,... | |
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As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. 
