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" 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... "
The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal - Page 24
1791
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Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...Ariftocracy has never but one child. The reft are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the canibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares - the unnatural...repaft. As every thing which is out of nature in man, affects, more or lefs, the intereft of fociety, fo does this. All the children which the ariftocracy...
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French ...

Thomas Paine - France - 1791 - 358 pages
...Ariftocracy has never but one child. The reft are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the canibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural...repaft. As every thing which is out of nature in man, affects, more or lefs, the intereft of fociety, fo does this. All the children which the ariftocracy...
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An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 824 pages
...of prirnogeni" tureihip, in a family of fix children, five are " expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child. " The reft are begotten to be devoured....They " are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the na" tural parent prepares the unnatural repaft." As to the houfe of commons, they treat it &r. worfe...
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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly

Edmund Burke - France - 1791 - 232 pages
...of primogeni" turefhip, in a family of fix children, five are *f expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child. " The reft are begotten to be devoured....They " are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the naff tural parent prepares the unnatural repaft." G 4 « As As to the houfe of commons, they treat...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 5

1791 - 618 pages
...family of fix children, five are expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child. The reft are begotien to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for...prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural xepaft. * As every thing which is out of nature in man, affects, more or lefs, the intereft of fociety,...
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Works, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...of primoge" niturefhip, in a family of fix children, five are " expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child. " -The reft are begotten to be devoured....natural " parent prepares the unnatural repaft." As to the houfe of commons, they treat it far •worfe than the houfe of lords or the crown have been...
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Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Page 732

Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...law of primogeniturefhip, in a family of fix children, five are expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child; the reft are begotten to be devoured ;...the natural parent prepares the unnatural repaft." J " There is an unnatural unfitnefs in an ariftocracy to be legiflators for a nation ; their ideas...
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Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Page 732

Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 658 pages
...children, five are expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one child; the reft are begotten to be devoured j they are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repaft." J " There is an unnatural unfitnefs in an ariftocracy to be legislators for a nation ; their ideas...
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The Rights of Man: For the Benefit of All Mankind

Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...ariftocratical law of primogeniturefhip, in a family of fix children, five are expofed. Ariftocracy has but one child ; the reft are begotten to be devoured....repaft. • As every thing which is out of nature in man affefts more or lefs, the intereft of fociety, fo does this. All the children which ariftocracy difowns...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 6

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 390 pages
...of " primogeniturefhip, in a family of fix children, <( five are expofed. Ariftocracy has never but one " child. The reft are begotten to be devoured....natural parent prepares the unnatural re«paft." , As to the houfe of commons, they treat it far worfe worfe than the houfe of lords or the crown have been...
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