 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1920 - 796 páginas
...H. Morley (2_d ed., London, 1887), 274-275, "To what gross absurdities," said Locke, "the following of custom, when reason has left it, may lead, we may be satisf1ed when we see the bare name of a town of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 páginas
...of Commons i 382, 391. 3 Ibid 392 ; Hallam, CH iii 40. 1 " 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, send as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers as a whole... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 páginas
...not reapportion itself. To what gross absurdities the following of custom * * • may lead • • '. When we see the bare name of a town of which there remains not so much MI ruins, where scarce so much as a sheepcote or more inhabitants than a shepbtfi is to be found, sends... | |
 | John Locke - 1967 - 548 páginas
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first establish'd upon. To what gross absurdities the following of Custom, when Reason has left it, may lead, we may...satisfied when we see the bare Name of a Town, of which t5 there remains not so much as the ruines, where scarce so much Housing as a Sheep-coat; or more Inhabitants... | |
 | John Dunn - 1969 - 314 páginas
...is no equal representative of the people, is notorious'. Two Treatises, n, § 157. esP- 1l. '4-19. 'the bare Name of a Town, of which there remains not so much as the mines, where scarce so much Housing as a Sheep-coat; or more Inhabitants than a Shepherd is to be found,... | |
 | John Locke - 1947 - 356 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 sheepcote or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of lawmakers as a whole... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1986 - 400 páginas
...Representation becomes very unequal and disproportionate to the reasons it was first established upon. . . [T]he bare Name of a Town, of which there remains not so much as the ruines, where scarce so much Housing as a Sheep-coat; or more Inhabitants than a Shepherd is to be... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 1994 - 356 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...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... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 páginas
...disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. To what gross absurdities the following tacitly, by not controlling the custom in that case received: and then such inconveni shepherd is to be found, sends as many representatives to the grand assembly of law-makers, as a whole... | |
 | David N. Durant - 1998 - 356 páginas
...under the control of a patron or the Crown. As the English philosopher John Locke (1632—1704) said, 'We see the bare name of a town, of which there remains...much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a sheep cote or more inhabitants than a shepherd is to be found, send as many representatives to the... | |
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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... 
