 Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2831827Full view - About this book
 | David Ricardo - 1899 - 272 pages
...original by oversight. s ' Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents,' fifth edition, 1775 : ' The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly... | |
 | 1898 - 592 pages
...there has generally been found something amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of the government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing party of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1908 - 484 pages
...of government. The people have nq interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake." EDMUND BURKE. THERE can be little doubt... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 494 pages
...people have no interest in disorder; when they do wrong it is their error and not their crime — ' Pour la populace, ce n'est jamais par envie d'attaquer qu'elle se souleve, mais par impatience de souffrir."' These sentiments appear, indeed, somewhat out of date, and to belong to an age unlike our... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 494 pages
...there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of the government. The people have no interest in disorder; when they do wrong it is their error and not then* crime — ' Pour la populace, ce n'est jamais par envie d'attaquer qu'elle se souleve,... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 pages
...in 1 The Present Discontents, p. 53. 2 The Present Discontents, p. 6. the conduct of the governed. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise. They certainly... | |
 | Laurence Housman - 1919 - 274 pages
...affirmed that there has been something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may... | |
 | Robert Roswell Palmer - 1959 - 552 pages
...something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of government." And he added, like Rousseau: "The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, not their crime." The error to which the people were liable was in failing to see that the trouble lay with the King.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1981 - 536 pages
...there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly... | |
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