For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other : and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. The Pamphleteer - Page 36edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
| 1808 - 556 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For, as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. ' * • The other subject, on which we should have been happy to receive... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. This is true in all the parts of administration, as well as in the whole.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 468 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the best sepurity against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. This is true in all the parts of administration, as well as in the whole.... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the besi security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itsell by some means or other : and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...things else; a lawful and regulated} enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. This is true in all the parts of administration, as well as in the whole.... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. This 53] AD 1780. [5 1 is true in all the parts of administration, as... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - Finance, Public - 1830 - 548 pages
...the use, of these four or five last paragraphs. SECTION IX. A PROPHECY, AND BY BURKE THE KING WILL SWALLOW UP THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE PEOPLE. Proposition...will be seen, required him to say, those " profits ") " will be increased to infinity. This is true" (continues he) " in all the parts of administration... | |
| 1831 - 398 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity. This is true in all the parts of administration, as well as in the whole.... | |
| Nathan Hale - Winnipesaukee, Lake (N.H.) - 1833 - 192 pages
...things else, a lawful and regular enjoyment is the best security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, 'so all power will infallibly...are left no way of ascertaining their profits but their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity." If such were the majority... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...things else, a lawful and regulated enjoyment is tinbest security against debauchery and excess. For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw...but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be encrcased to infinity. This is true in all the parts of administration, as well as in the whole.... | |
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