| Books - 1776 - 612 pages
...reflecting that we furnifh the means by which we fjffer. Government, like drefs, is the badge of loft innocence ; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers * See, particularly, our account of his Sermon on the prefent Situation of American Affairs : Rev.... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1776 - 608 pages
...reflecting that we furnilh the means by which we fuffer. Government, like drefs, is the badge of loft innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers t The Author premifes, in a note, that he ' did not intend to appropriate this term, fo as to detradt... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...reflecting that we furnilh the means by which we fufficr. Government, like drefs, is the badge of loft innocence ; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bower! t The Author premifes, in a net/, that he ' did not intend to appropriate this term, fo as to... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 524 pages
...government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and and... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1824 - 478 pages
...government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and and... | |
| William Grisenthwaite - Church history - 1825 - 314 pages
...work, which I am now examining, Mr. Paine, in his Common Sense, had written such a sentence as this! " Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence,...kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise !" Such are the inconsistencies of Mr. Paine. They cannot be accidental, and being by design, betray... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1826 - 470 pages
...government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence...are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, m3n would need no other... | |
| 1832 - 816 pages
...its best state, is but a ne' cessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : "the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the * bowers of paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, ' uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other... | |
| 1832 - 572 pages
...its best state, is but a ne' cessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the ' bowers of paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, ' uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other... | |
| William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...happiness. — Economist. CHAPTER III. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. SECTION I. THE ORIGIN AND OBJECTS OP GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;...are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise. For, were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other... | |
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