 | Peter Viereck - Страниц: 200
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. . . . Inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission;... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - Страниц: 260
...and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially...whatever to any other more general or prior right." These facets of the revolutionary narrative in Burke's historical thought had the further effect of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Страниц: 718
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity — as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage,... | |
 | Bruce Smith - 2006 - Страниц: 461
...entailed inheritance, derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity.... We have an inheritable crown; an inheritable peerage;...privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors.''09 I know of no passage with which I can more suitably close this chapter than the following... | |
 | Allan Hepburn - 2007 - Страниц: 313
...Englishmen assume civil 'liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to use from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity - as an estate specially...whatever to any other more general or prior right' (33). Thus, the crown, the peerage, the House of Commons, the franchise, and protected rights of Englishmen... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown, an inherit able peerage,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially...prior right. By this means our Constitution preserves an unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown, an inherit able peerage,... | |
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You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity... 
