 | Edmund Burke - History - 1802 - 880 pages
...pofilion, by a remark of Mr. Hume's on the fflccefjful usurpation of Cromwell. '' By recent as well as ancient example, it was become evident, that illegal violence, with whatever pretences it might be covered, and whatever objecU it may purfue, mnlr, inevitably end, at laft, in the arbitrary... | |
 | History - 1802 - 876 pages
...pofilion, by a remark of Mr. Hume's on the fuccebful ufurpation of Cromwell. " By recent as well as ancient example, it was become evident, that illegal violence, with whatever pretences it might be covered, and whatever objecls it may purfne, muft inevitably end, at laß, in the arbitrary... | |
 | History - 1802 - 882 pages
...pofition, by a remark of Mr. Hume"' on thq fuccelsful usurpation of Cromwell. " By recent as well as ancient example, it was become evident, that illegal violence, with whatever pretences it might be covered, and whatever objefts it may purfue, muft inevitably end, at laft, in the arbitrary... | |
 | 1805 - 540 pages
...memorable words of the mod profound aud philofophical of hiftorians. ' By recent, as well as by antient example, it was become evident, that illegal violence,...whatever object it may purfue, muft inevitably end at tail in the arbitrary and defpotic government of a fingle perfon. * , The fecond inexcufable blunder... | |
 | Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - Ambigu - 1803 - 494 pages
..."** Thus, to use the words of the historian, "by recent as well as all ancient example, it ** became evident, that illegal violence, with " whatever pretences it may be covered, and Whatever -object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person *."... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...philosophical of historians. " By recent, as well as by ancient example, it was become evident, that iilcgal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and llespoUc government of a single person." The... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...usurpation. Y " Thus," to use the words of the historian, " by re" cent as well as ancient example, it became evident, " that illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be " covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must ine" vitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic govern* " ment of a fingle person... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 514 pages
...usurpation. Thus, to use the words of the historian ; " by recent as well as all ancient example, it became evident that illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotick government of a single person."... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 544 pages
...oppressed by the rebellion of their own servants, and found themselves at once exposed to the insults of power and hatred of the people. By recent, as well...pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person. CHAP.... | |
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... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person. 
