 | John Stuart Mackenzie - Citizenship - 1928 - 394 pages
...considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico and tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and then dissolved by the parties. It is to be looked upon with other reverence, because it is not a partnership... | |
 | Sir George Newman - Citizenship - 1928 - 274 pages
...partnership./Edmund Burke told us that it was not/to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancy of the... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern. ... It is to be looked on with other reverence; because...is not a partnership in things subservient only to gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. [Here Burke draws on Hooker far more than... | |
 | Dante Germino - Political Science - 1979 - 416 pages
...at pleasurebut 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. ... It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, • The swaddling-bands of our race'. Cf. Cicero, Dt Oral., 1.23, 'incunabula nostrae docthnae'. and... | |
 | Norberto Bobbio - Political Science - 1987 - 194 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,...little temporary interest and to be dissolved by the fancies of the parties. It should be looked on with other reverence." What helped to give the coup... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - Law - 1987 - 168 pages
...proclaimed that "the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved at the fancy of the parties," but rather as "a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art;... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Social Science - 386 pages
...would add, civil society] ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, for it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary... | |
 | David Luban - Law - 1988 - 484 pages
...nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary...be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. ... It is ... a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - Philosophy - 1990 - 304 pages
...acquiesce in Burke's charge that liberal society amounts to "nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up only for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties."12 Instead,... | |
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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... 
