 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 páginas
...or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it : And therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations, by which the makers...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 governing beyond... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826 - 594 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 for itself in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it ; a theory which will not now be easily shaken,... | |
 | Thomas E. Skidmore - 1829 - 420 páginas
...commanding for ever how the world " shall be governed, or who shall govern it. And., " therefore, all such clauses, acts, or declarations, '> by which the makers of them attempt to do, 1 ' what they have neither the right nor the power to • do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves.... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 páginas
...of commanding for ever how the world sftall be governed, or who shall govern it ; and therefore all such clauses, acts, or declarations, by which the...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 governing beyond... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 páginas
...of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it ; and therefore all such clauses, acts, or declarations, by which the...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 governing beyond... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1856 - 168 páginas
...of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it ; and therefore, all such clauses, acts or declarations, by which the makers...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 governing beyond... | |
 | Charles B. Pearre - 1872 - 164 páginas
...declare that Edmund J. Davis shall govern, the State of Texas till the day of judgment All such Acts by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the power nor the right to do, nor the power to execute are in themselves null and void. This Legislature... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1892 - 300 páginas
...of of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore, all such clauses, acts or declarations, by which the makers...execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and gener- " ation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1894 - 146 páginas
...of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it ; and therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations by which the makers...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... | |
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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 governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. 
