 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 strani
...debates upon them, will have a similar conclusion. H1STOR1CUS. March 2 3, 1790. OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. BY the original law of nations, war and extirpation...step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery : another, to respect more the property ot private persons under conquest, and be content with acquired... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 strani
...had ocular proof that he was mistaken. No. 502. (a) " I knew (says Mr. Fletcher) a Very wise man who believed, that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." (b) PS to Spectator, in folio. — There are, in the play of the Self-Tormentor of Terence, several... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 196 strani
...debates upon them will have a similar conclusion. HLSTOR1CUS. March 22, 1790, OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. I BY the original law of nations, war and extirpation...degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death : a farther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery :. another, to respect more the property... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 strani
...and abiding recompense. The remark of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, that "he knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," is familiar to all students of English literature. To whom in this remark, sometimes erroneously ascribed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1815 - 336 strani
...debates upon them, will have a similar conclusion. HISTORICUS. March 2 3, 1790OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation...degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death : a farther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery ; another, to respect more the property... | |
 | 1858 - 862 strani
...WILSON. INDUSTRIAL MDSEOH, EDINBUBOH, September 1858. THE BALLAD POETRY OF SCOTLAND AND OF IRELAND.* " IF a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." This is a saying which has often been cited, not always quite so accurately, perhaps, as on the present... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 strani
...it was, one man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. BF OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. BY the original law of nations, war and extirpation...degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death : a farther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery : another, to respect more the property... | |
 | 1821 - 356 strani
...it was, one man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. BF OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. BY the original law of nations, war and extirpation...degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death : a farther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery : another, to respect more the property... | |
 | 1821 - 524 strani
...to which deluded mortals attach the highest glory. OBSERVATIONS ON WAR BY AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER. " BY the original law of nations, war and extirpation...degrees,, it admitted slavery instead of death : A farther step was the exchange »f prisoners instead of slavery : Another, to respect more the property... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 strani
...debates upon them, will have a similar conclusion, HISTORICUS. March 23, 1790. OBSERVATIONS ON WAR. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation...by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death: a farther step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery : another, to respect more the property... | |
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I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation. 
