 Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico...  The North American Review - Page 422edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coflee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 36 pages
...copartnership of the present with the past and with the future. To borrow the lofty language of Burke : "A. state ought not to be considered as nothing better...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 38 pages
...copartnership of the present with the past and with the future. To borrow the lofty language of Burke : — " A State ought not to be considered as nothing better...of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 566 pages
...the interest of the whole, is guaranteed by the most inviolable sanctions." " A State/' says Burke, " ought not to be considered as nothing better than...agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico and tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 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 of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1870 - 292 pages
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure, but the State ought not to be considered...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
 | 1894 - 922 pages
...Burke' s fancy of an ideal State may not be merely a pansing dream, but a fact manifoldly realized : "The State ought not to be considered as nothing better...in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1872 - 244 pages
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the State ought not to be considered...trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or sume other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 pages
...is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure. But the State ought not to be considered...of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
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