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" The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged to hold their public faith with each other, and with all those who derive... "
American Journal of Philology - Page 425
edited by - 1882
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Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from ...

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...By as strong, or by a stronger reason, the house of commons cannot renounce its share of authority. The engagement and pact of society, which generally...constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged to hold their public faith with each other, and with all those...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...By as strong, or by a stronger reason, the house of commons cannot renounce its share of authority. The engagement and pact of society, which generally...constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged to hold their public faith with each other, and with all those...
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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1912 - 662 pages
...to elect a person who shall permanently exercise that royal authority. But, my lords, theengagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the constitution, forhids such invasion and surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged to hold their public...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ef manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 32

1812 - 1038 pages
...future period, to elect a person who shall permanently exercise that royal authority. But, my lords, the engagement and pact of society, which generally...name of the constitution, forbids such invasion and surrender. " My lords, I hear of restrictions in the regency. I say, my lords, these restrictions cannot,...
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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ..., Volume 18

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 724 pages
...future period to elect a person who shall permanently exercise that royal authority. But, my lords, the engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name ot the constitution, forhids such invasion and surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...By as strong, or by a stronger reason, the house of commons cannot renounce its share of authority. The engagement and pact of society, which generally...constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged to hold their public faith with each other, and with all those...
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Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1

Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...By as strong, or by a stronger reason, the house of commons cannot renounce its share of authority. The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the cbnstitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender. The constituent parts of a state are obliged...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of of manly sentiment and heroick enterprisfe is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Richard Price

William Morgan - Unitarians - 1815 - 214 pages
...lamented that " the age of chivalry is gone — that the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever — that the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse ofmanty sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!" Such indeed was the inveterate antipathy of Mr....
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