 | Thomas Paine - 1921 - 314 páginas
...whatever it may be, is superfluous or insignificant. Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting...but to be a King requires only the animal figure of man—a sort of breathing automaton. This sort of superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 páginas
...whatever it may be, is superfluous or insignificant. Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office which any child or ideot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but, to be a king, requires only... | |
 | Howard Martin - 1996 - 422 páginas
...to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds. Hereditary succession ... puts [monarchy] in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as...animal figure of man - a sort of breathing automaton. T. Paine, The Rights of Man, Vol. I 1791, Vol. II 1792. Source B The Resolutions of the London Corresponding... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1996 - 242 páginas
...idiot, a third insane, and some all three put together, it is impossible to attach confidence to it ... It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a kin, requires only the animal figure of a man — a sort of breathing automaton.' For Burke, of course,... | |
 | Neil Davidson - 2000 - 276 páginas
...Man. published in 1 792, Tom Paine wrote, among other observations on the monarchy, that: 'It takes some talents to be a common mechanic: but. to be a king, requires only the animal figure of a man - a sort of breathing automaton.'48 As Edward Thompson points out, between 1791 and 1793, the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 2002 - 300 páginas
...they were flocks and herds. Rights of Man, H, 1792 Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting...it as an office which any child or idiot may fill. Rights of Man, II, 1792 A government calling itself free, with an hereditary office, is like a thorn... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin, Catherine Jones Finer, Bob Matthews - 2004 - 338 páginas
...whatever it may be, is superfluous or insignificant. Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting...only the animal figure of man - a sort of breathing automation. This sort of superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot long resist the awakened... | |
 | Joseph Gurney - 1794 - 460 páginas
...by prefenting it as an office, " which any child or id/iot may rill. It requires ibme talents ta *' be a common mechanic, but to be a King requires only the " animal figure of man, a fort of breathing automaton. This " fort of fuperftition may laft a few years more. but it cannot "... | |
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Hereditary succession is a burlesque upon monarchy. It puts it in the most ridiculous light, by presenting it as an office, which any child or idiot may fill. It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king, requires only the animal... 
