NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those... Economics and Ethics of Private Property - Page 55by Hans-Hermann Hoppe - 2006 - 265 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Hume - 1788 - 492 pages
...appears more furprifing to thofe who confider human affairs with a philofophical eye, than the eafinefs with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit fubmiffion with which men refign their own fentiments and paffions to thofe of their rulers. When we... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1817 - 564 pages
...just suspicion either of malei lence or of flattery. ESSAY IV. OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. appears more surprising to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the' side... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 602 pages
...exercise of power, not crjtritablc in engrossing it. ESSAY IV. OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side... | |
| Theology - 636 pages
...could be induced to ponder the doctrine of the great historian of England. "Nothing," says Hume, "is more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than to pee the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and to observe the implicit submission... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Authority - 1849 - 454 pages
...directions, by the influence of the antagonist principle of special fitness.* In arranging the * " Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 586 pages
...N, and published as a separate Essay in Edition B. ESSAY IV OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side... | |
| David Hume - Ethics - 1854 - 590 pages
...and published as a separate Essay in Edition B. ESSAY IV. "k OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. Whejjwc inquire by what_means this wonder is effected, tkat^^ajL Foice. is alvvays^on the side of the... | |
| George Hugh Smith - Human rights - 1887 - 430 pages
...strongest and most universal are those which relate to right; and whether this is a mere superstition or 1 "Nothing a,ppears more surprising, to those who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, Jehu Baker - Rome - 1889 - 540 pages
...this sagacious thinker, " appears more surprising to those who 1 See Gibbon's Rome, vol. v, pp. 1-89. consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - History - 1889 - 466 pages
...the governed, and government therefore in a sense always depends upon opinion. " Nothing," he writes, "appears '' more surprising to those, who consider...implicit " submission, with which men resign their own senti" ments and passions to those of their rulers. When " we inquire by what means this wonder is... | |
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