 The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue; and where the people are not so happy as to have any legislature but a SINGLE PERSON, THE STRICTEST LOYALTY n, IN THAT CASE, THE TRUEST PATRIOTISM.  Irish Riflemen in America - Page 208by Arthur Blennerhassett Leech - 1875 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1764 - 524 pages
...the cuftoms of nations incline too much, fometimes to the one fide, fometimes to the other. The moft inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is...acknowledged a capital virtue ; and where the people are not fo happy, as to have any other legiflature but a fingle perfon, the ftricleft loyalty is, in that cafe,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...loi/oíív obeyed. Pope's Odyssey. The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is every where acknowledged a capital virtue ; and, where the people are not so happy as to have any législature but a single person, the strictest loyalty is, in that case, the tiuest patriotism. Hume.... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - American loyalists - 1880 - 536 pages
...resurrection morn of the Protestant Reformation to the present day. A great writer has truly observed : ' The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our...is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue;' and that virtue has been nobly illustrated in the history of our United Empire Loyalist forefathers, and... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - United Empire loyalists - 1882 - 206 pages
...this vindication of Sir John Johnson is committed to the caiin and unprejudiced judgment of readers: "The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our...legislature but a SINGLE PERSON, THE STRICTEST LOYALTY n, IN THAT CASE, THE TRUEST PATRIOTISM." " Hopes have precarious life; They are oft blighted, withered,... | |
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