| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1750 - 538 pages
...liberty, becaufe the executive power would no longer be dependent ; and when once it was poflefled of fuch a perpetual right, it would be a matter of...itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid, if it mould come to a refolution of intrufting, not an annual, but a perpetual command of the fea and land forces... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1773 - 532 pages
...its liberty, becaufe the executive power would be no longer dependent; and when once it was poflefled of fuch a perpetual right, it would be a matter of...itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid, if it fliould come to a refolution of intrufting, noc an annual, but a perpetual command, of the fleets and... | |
| Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...liberty, becaufe the executive power would no longer be dependant ; and when once it was 'pofTefTed of fuch a perpetual right, it would be a matter of indifference, whether it held it of hfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid if it fhould fix, not from year to year but for ever, the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...liberty, becaufe the executive power would во longer be dependent ; and when once it was poflefled of fuch a perpetual right, it would be a matter of...itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid, if it fnoulJ fix, not from year to year, but for ever, the fea and land forces with which it is to intruil... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1794 - 390 pages
...would no longer be dependent; and when once it was poffefled of fuch a perpetual right, it would'be a matter of indifference, whether it held it of itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid if it fhouldfix, not from year to year, but for ever, the fea and land forces with which it is to intruft... | |
| abbé Barruel - France - 1797 - 894 pages
...Liberty, becaufe the executive power would " no longer be dependent j and when once it was «' poflefled of fuch a perpetual right, it would be " a matter of indifference, whether it held it of " itfclf, or of another. The fame may be faid, " if it fhould fix, not from year to year, but for «'... | |
| English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...dependent; and when once it was peddled of foch a perpetual rit ht, it would he a matter of indifferer.ee, whether it held it of itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid, if it fhould fix, not from year to year, but for ever, the fea and land forces with which it is to intruft... | |
| abbé Barruel - France - 1799 - 292 pages
...Liberty, becaufe " the executive power would no longer be dependent ; " and when once it was poflefled of fuch a perpetual " right, it would be a matter...itfelf, or of another. The fame may " be faid, if it fhould h'x, not from year to year, but " for ever, the fea and land forces with which it is to " entruft... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...liberty, becaufe the executive power would no longer be dependent ; and when once it was poffeffed of fuch a perpetual right, it would be a matter of indifference, •whether it held it ot itfelf, or of another. The fame may be faid if it fhould fix, not from year to year, but forever,... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...liberty, because the executive power would be no longer dependent ; and when once it was possessed of such a perpetual right, it would be a matter of indifference, whether it held it of itself, or of another. The same may be said if it should come to a resolution of intrusting, not an... | |
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