 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 596 páginas
...gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, 1fiayTead, we may be satisfied I when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much I as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheep-cote or more inhabit/ ants than a shepherd... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 páginas
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of a he time this speech had a great effect, and the motion...against him, he was compelled to resign all his offic cheep-cot, or more inhabitants than a shepherd, is to be found, sends as many representatives to the... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 páginas
...was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of a custom, when reason bas rains, where scarce so much housing as a sheep-cot, or more inhabitants than a shepherd, is to be found,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 642 páginas
...435 a more faithful representation of the people. Locke, in a memorable passage, complained that ' the bare name of a town, of which there remains not...much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheepcot or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1880 - 552 páginas
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 páginas
...disproportionate to the reasons it was first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...housing as a sheepcote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1880 - 222 páginas
...Locke's remarks on the necessity of Parliamentary Reform. " To what gross absurdities the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may...much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheepeote or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1316 páginas
...first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following of a custom, when reason has left, may lead, we may be satisfied when we see the bare...housing as a sheep-cote, or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers as a whole... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 356 páginas
...vote. Most of them were in the gift of noblemen or rich commoners, " rotten boroughs," having only " the bare name of a town, of > which there remains not so much as the ruins." ' Defoe tells us that the market price of a seat was a thousand guineas. The object of the purchaser... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 352 páginas
...vote. Most of them were in the gift of noblemen or rich commoners, " rotten boroughs," having only "the bare name of a town, of • which there remains not so much as the ruins."1 Defoe tells us that the market price of a seat was a thousand guineas. The object of the purchaser... | |
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To what gross absurdities the following of custom when reason has left it may lead, we may be satisfied when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a... 
