 be transitory, though at the same time it is asserted that " there is no belief less warranted by actual experience than that a democratic republic is, after the first and in the long run, given to reforming legislation.  DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE - Page 179by FRANKLIN HENRY GIDDINGS. - 1900Full view - About this book
 | George Walter Prothero - 1884
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...and in the long run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly legislated at all ; their democratic energy... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
| Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pages
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience,...democratic republic is, after the first and in the long-run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1895 - 565 pages
...Monarchy alike, " when they are first established in absolute completeness, are highly destructive." But " there is no belief less warranted by actual experience, than that a democratic 1 Popular Government, p. 65. Maine was perhaps started on this line of argument by the fact, noted... | |
 | Sir John Murray IV, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle - 1884
...conquering Monarchy, of which they observed with wonder that the law of the Medes and Persians altereth not. There is no belief less warranted by actual experience...and in the long run, given to reforming legislation. As is well known to scholars, the ancient republics hardly legislated at all; their democratic energy... | |
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