 | William Logan Fisher - 1852 - 160 pages
...difficulty in reorganizing the Society of Friends. In reference to his system of Laws, Penn says : " I do not find a model in the world that time, place,...singular emergencies have not necessarily altered." His system of government was the result of his sense of right, sustained by men as wise as himself.... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...altered ; nor is it easy to frame a civil government that shall serve all places alike. " Thirdly. I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy,...aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many, and are the three common ideas of government when men discourse on that subject.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - 1852 - 638 pages
...a bias upon their minds, that they lean to them against the good of the things they know. Secondly, I do not find a model in the world, that time, place, and some singular emergences have not necessarily altered; nor is it easy to frame a civil government, that shall serve... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 786 pages
...coming of the blessed second Adam — the Lord from heaven." As to the modes, he further observes, "I do not find a model in the world, that time, place,...civil government that shall serve all places alike." "Any gove/nment is free to the people under it, (whatever be the frame,) where the laws rule, and the... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 676 pages
...of his name. In his preface to the frame of government which he drew up for the province, he said, " I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy,...aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many, and are the three common ideas of government which men discourse on that subject.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pages
...statesmanlike system of social policy. The preface to it is full of sound wisdom. " I know," he says, " what is said by the several admirers of monarchy,...aristocracy, and democracy, which are the rule of one, of a few, and of many, and are the three common ideas of government when men discourse on that subject.... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 775 pages
...the coming of the blessed second Adam—the Lord from heaven." As to the modes, he further observes, "I do not find a model in the world, that time, place,...civil government that shall serve all places alike." "Any government is free to the people under it, (whatever be the frame,) where the laws rule, and the... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter - 1854 - 376 pages
...bias upon their minds, that they lean to them against the good of the things they know. " Secondly, I do not find a model in the world that time, place, and some singular emergencies have not essentially altered; nor is it easy to frame a civil government that shall serve all places alike.... | |
 | James Bowden - 1854 - 426 pages
...many other affairs make up much the greatest part. — I know * Proud's History, vol. ip 169. t Ibid. what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy ; and [these] are the three common ideas of government when men discourse on the suhject. But I choose... | |
 | james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...other affairs make up much the greatest part.—I know * Proud's History, vol. ip 169. t Ibid. B 2 what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy ; and [these] are the three common ideas of government when men discourse on the subject. But I choose... | |
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I do not find a model in the world, that time, place, and some singular emergencies have not necessarily altered, nor is it easy to frame a civil government that shall serve all places alike. 
