 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...  Essays, moral, political, and literary - Page 19by David Hume - 1825Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1809 - 868 pages
...suspicion either of malevolence or of flattery. 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 enquire 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...rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is 'r ucted, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the terms of this compromise, and in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1885 - 430 pages
...the governed, and government therefore in a sense always depends upon opinion. "Nothing," he writes, "appears more " surprising to those, who consider...sentiments and passions to those of their "rulers. When we enquire by what means this " wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is "always on the side... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1889 - 530 pages
...or of flattery. ESSAY IV.—Of the First Principles of Government. NOTHING appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical...sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - History - 1889 - 466 pages
...the governed, and government therefore in a sense always depends upon opinion. " Nothing," he writes, "appears '' more surprising to those, who consider...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy. 2148 li. R. Haydon : Table Talk. Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human...philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the manv are governed by the few. 2149 Hume : Essay*. IV. Of the First Principles of Government. Every... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...out of it, the Trappist disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it. Lindner. Nothing is more surprising з 0 Ψ 0 X : ߁ Hume. 25 Nothing is more terrible than Ignorance in action« Got (ht. Nothing is more unjust or capricious... | |
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