 OF the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate without an indignant smile, that, on the father's decease, the property of a nation,...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 161edited by - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...present the fairest scope for rent ndi- ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an infu'e> dignant smile, that on the father's decease, the property...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarcnv seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...indignant smile, that. on the fa-rentridither's decease, the property of a nation, like that of acue drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...of an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it, says he, possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the TII> fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without *-*^~*¿ an indignant smile, that on the father's decease, the property rent ЛЗГ" of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends toculc' his infant son, as yet unknown... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - French language - 1837 - 314 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 446 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that, on the...nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infaht son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the bravest warriors, and the wisest... | |
 | 1846 - 780 pages
...world, that of an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the bravest warriors, and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Thomas Allen Reed - 1851 - 274 pages
...fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that, on the father,s decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant eon, аз yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the bravest warriors, and the wisest statesmen,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 154 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate, without an indignant smile, that, on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
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