 | W. T. Sherwin - 1819 - 306 páginas
...right to enter into any agreement or contract respecting the government of posterity, for, says he, " every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases, as the age and generation which preceded it." A more self-evident position than this could not have been advanced,... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826 - 634 páginas
...settled," and then, conscious of the weakness of his argument, he falls violently on Paine's theory, that every age and generation must be as free to act...cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it ; a theory which will not now be easily shaken, until men have learned the secret how to unthink their... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 páginas
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in till cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1837 - 716 páginas
...the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, aro in themselves null and void Every a£e and generation must be as free to act for itself,...presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the moat ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation... | |
 | Gilbert Vale - 1841 - 242 páginas
...right to enter into any agreement or contract respecting the government of posterity, for, say she, ' every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases, as the v / age and generation which preceded it." A more self-evident position than this could not have been... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1894 - 146 páginas
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1894 - 242 páginas
...born into it as it was to the first man that 1 Paine, Common Sense, p. 49, London, 1819. existed." * " Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generation which preceded it." 2 " Man has no property in man ; neither has any generation... | |
 | George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 páginas
...established whenever people admit generally that limitation is just. CHAPTER IX. EARTH FROM A DISTANCE. " Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all casesas the ages and generations which preceded 1t. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond... | |
 | Benjamin Wood - 1899 - 228 páginas
...his " Rights of Man," has expressed a thought which is appropriate to youth at the age of reason. " Every age and generation must be as free to act for...as the ages and generations which preceded it." The Talmud teaches, " If we do not act for ourselves, who can do it for us? If we act not now, when shall... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 páginas
...have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generation which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most... | |
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of government beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. 
