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" Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico... "
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary ... - Page 276
by Joseph Story - 1833 - 776 pages
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Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 380 pages
...or fome other fuch low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary intereft, and to be diflblved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; becauSe it is not a partnerfhip in things fubfervient only to the grofs animal exiftence of a temporary and perifhable...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 372 pages
...or fome other fuch low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary intereft, and to be diflblved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; becaufe it is not a partnerfhip in things fubfervient only to the grofs animal exiftence of a temporary...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings ..., Issues 1-2

Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...or fome other fuch low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary intereft, and to be diflblved by the. fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; becaufe it is not a partnerfhip in things fubfervient only to the grofs animal exiftence of a temporary...
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Works, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 636 pages
...or fome other fuch low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary intereit, and to be diflblved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; becaufe it is not a partnerfhip in things fubfervient only to the grofs animal exiftence of a temporary...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 5

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 458 pages
...or fome other fuchlow concern, to be taken up for a little temporary intereft, and to be diffolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; becaufe it is not a partnerfhip in things fubfervient only to the grofs animal exiftence of a temporary...
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The American Review of History and Politics, and General ..., Volume 2

Europe - 1811 - 584 pages
...nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or tome other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary mterest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence;...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...because it is not a partnership in things subservient ouly to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature : it is a partnership in all...
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The American Jurist, Volume 9

Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...at pleasure. But the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be tukcn up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...pleasure— but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement s court of directors? If they are paid by eilher of...parties, by which of them does he think they are titile temporary interest, and to be diesolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to bo looked on with...
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Tracts on law, government, and other political subjects, collected and ed ...

Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...partnership in pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence. It is a partnership in all art, in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership...
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