 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
 | Edward Caird - 1885 - 284 pages
...crude theory of a Social Contract and recognize that the unity of the State or of Society is something 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Ágost Pulszky - 1888 - 498 pages
...for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure, but the state ought not to he considered as nothing better than a, partnership agreement...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... | |
 | 1891 - 220 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...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee calico and tobacco, or some such other low concern, to be taken up by a little temporary interest, and to... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 pages
...Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure. But the Stiite ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and colfce, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to bo Uikcn up for u littlo temporary interest,... | |
 | 1891 - 828 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 as nothing better than a partnership agree1 The metaphors are Bentham's; see chap, i, § 36. ment in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1892 - 272 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... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1892 - 250 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... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1893 - 312 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pages
...indeed a contract. Subordinate con- 10 tracts 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 15 little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the... | |
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