It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never... Jura Anglorum - Seite 503von Francis Plowden - 1792 - 620 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1901 - 524 Seiten
...primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but &ne child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast." As to the House of Commons, they treat it far worse than the House of Lords or the crown have... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1908 - 374 Seiten
...in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never more than one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast. As every thing which is out of nature in man, affects, more or less, the interest of society,... | |
| Frances E. Dolan - 1994 - 274 Seiten
...in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never more than one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast" (The Rights of Man [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984], p. 82). 77. I quote here from the edition... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2000 - 388 Seiten
...primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast. As everything which is out of nature in man affects, more or less, the interest of society,... | |
| Kristen Guest - 2001 - 234 Seiten
...a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never had more than one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast."21 Conversely, Paine's archnemesis, Burke, associates the French revolutionaries with cannibalism.... | |
| Eileen Hunt Botting - 2012 - 268 Seiten
...primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast." 102 Burke frequently uses imagery of cannibalism to illustrate the irony of how revolutionary... | |
| Marina Warner - 2007 - 470 Seiten
...mythological cannibal fathers to primogeniture: 'Aristocracy has never more than one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.' He then endorsed with passion the abolition of primogeniture by the French revolutionaries,... | |
| Denis Flannery - 2007 - 192 Seiten
...in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never more than one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast' (82). In this passage the Franco-American enlightenment project attempts to reconfigure the... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 Seiten
...primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast." As to the House of Commons, they treat it far worse than the House of Lords or the crown have... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - 510 Seiten
...primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast." As to the House of Commons, they treat it far worse than the House of Lords or the crown have... | |
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