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Essays, moral, political, and literary - Page 32
by David Hume - 1817
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...without encouraging a passion for such dangerous novelties. ESSAY V. OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT. MAN, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society,...political society, in order to administer justice v without which there can be no peace among them, nor safety, nor mutual intercourse. We are, therefore,...
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A Collection of Cases Decided by the General Court of Virginia, Chiefly ...

Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough, Hugh Holmes - 1815 - 364 pages
...make use of the following one from the celebrated Hume, in his essay on our government, — viz. " We are "therefore to look upon all the vast apparatus of our go" vernment, as having ultimately no other object, or pur"pose, but the distribution of justice, or...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 14

Abraham John Valpy - 1819 - 568 pages
...(historical or political), which the lust century has bequeathed to us, the following passage : " Man bom in a family is compelled to maintain society from...peace among them, nor safety, nor mutual intercourse. AVe are therefore to look upon all the vast apparatus of our government, as having ultimately no other...
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Philosophical Works, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...our domestic affairs ? — EDITIONS A, C, 1). VOL. III. ESSAY V.* OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT. MAN, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society...inclination, and from habit. The same creature, in his further progress, is engaged to establish political society, in order to administer justice, without...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume, Volume 3

David Hume - 1854 - 590 pages
...only our domestic affairs? — EDITIONS A, C, D. VOL. III. ESSAY V.* OF THE ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT. MAN, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society from necessity, from natural inclination,~and from habit. The same creature, in his further progress, is engaged to establish political...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

1883 - 836 pages
...better in its place." — (HI. 28.) The fifth Essay discusses the Origin of Government; — " Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society...justice, without which there can be no peace among them, noi safety, nor mutual intercourse. We are therefore to look upon all the vast apparatus of our government...
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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, Volume 1

David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...encouraging a passion for such dangerous novelties. 1 ESSAY V. 1 —Of the Origin of Government. MAN, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society,...apparatus of our government, as having ultimately 1 [Editions A to N add the following which ought to be plac'd on instrueparagraph:—I shall conclude...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...states his view of the limited responsibilities of the people with his accustomed calm lucidity: " Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society...inclination, and from habit. The same creature, in his further progress, is engaged to establish political society, in order to administer justice, without...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...states his view of the limited responsibilities of the people with his accustomed calm lucidity: " Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society...inclination, and from habit. The same creature, in his further progress, is engaged to establish political society, in order to administer justice, without...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...states his view of the limited responsibilities of the people with his accustomed calm lucidity: " Man, born in a family, is compelled to maintain society from necessity, from natural inclination, and from-habit. The same creature, in his further progress, is engaged to establish political society,...
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