 | David Hume - 1788 - 492 pages
...appears more furprifing to thofe who confider human affairs with a philofophical eye, than the eafinefs with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit fubmiffion with which men refign their own fentiments and paffions to thofe of their rulers. When we... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1817 - 564 pages
...just suspicion either of malei lence or of flattery. ESSAY IV. OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. appears more surprising to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the' side... | |
 | Theology - 636 pages
...could be induced to ponder the doctrine of the great historian of England. "Nothing," says Hume, "is more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than to pee the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and to observe the implicit submission... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Authority - 1849 - 526 pages
...directions, by the influence of the antagonist principle of special fitness.* In arranging the * " Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is 'r ucted, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 586 pages
...published as a separate Essay in Edition B. ESSAY IV OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 584 pages
...published as a separate Essay in Edition B. ESSAY IV. ^ OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. by wjmt means this wonder is effected, Force is always on the side of the governed^the^governors have... | |
 | George Hugh Smith - Human rights - 1887 - 430 pages
...most universal are those which relate to right; and whether this is a mere superstition or 1 "Nothing a,ppears more surprising, to those who consider human...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - History - 1889 - 466 pages
...error to suppose that the most absolute ruler which ever existed could in reality make or change every law at his pleasure. That this must be so results...implicit " submission, with which men resign their own senti" ments and passions to those of their rulers. When " we inquire by what means this wonder is... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, Jehu Baker - Rome - 1889 - 540 pages
...this sagacious thinker, " appears more surprising to those who 1 See Gibbon's Rome, vol. v, pp. 1-89. consider human affairs with a philosophical eye than...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy. 2148 l"i. R. Hayaon: Table Talk. Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human...easiness with which the many are governed by the few. 2149 Hume : Essays. IV. Of the First Principles of Government. Every governmental institution has been... | |
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NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those... 
