The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. Ordeal by Battle - Seite 242von Frederick Scott Oliver - 1915 - 437 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1921 - 432 Seiten
...tax-gatherers, of the guard-room.' Again, in his preface to a new edition of the novels (1870) : ' The divine right ' of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine ' right of governments is the keystone of human progress and ' without it government sinks into police and a nation... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine.right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1875 - 526 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. National institutions... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 488 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob." Then follows a splendid... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 494 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob." Then follows a splendid... | |
| Edward Walford - 1881 - 276 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police and a nation is degraded into a mob. " National institutions... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 516 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. National institutions... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 528 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob. derived from a limited... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 410 Seiten
...of tithes, which may yet shake the foundation of so many ancient institutions ?—Contarini Fleming. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...of government is the key-stone of human progress, and without it government sinks into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.—Preface to 'Lothair.'... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 674 Seiten
...principle, that the tenure of property should be the fulfilment of duty, is the essence of good government. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for...right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob." Then follows a splendid... | |
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