 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheepcote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to 'the grand assembly of law-makers as a whole... | |
 | George Coles - 1823 - 204 pages
...indignation, that the mind must experience by this comparison. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may be satisfied, (observes the great Mr. Locke in his Treatise on Civil Government) when we see the bare name of a town,... | |
 | Thomas Burton - 1828 - 618 pages
...(Got). B. ii. 157) among the " gross absurdities" to which "the following of custom may lead," that " the bare name of a town, of which there remains not...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a sheph'erd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 422 pages
...a change in the electoral system We. «. «cn of England. " To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, send as many representatives to the grand assembly of lawmakers as a whole... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheepcote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may be satisfied, when we sec the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatiuet to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | 1845 - 554 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatioes to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reaSELECT PASSAGES son has left it, may lead, we may be satisfied, when we see the b*re name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1847 - 498 pages
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remain not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheepcot, or more inhabitants than... | |
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To what gross absurdities the following of custom when reason has left it may lead, we may be satisfied when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a... 
