 Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a Continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite...  The Pamphleteer - Page 83edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - History - 2004 - 452 pages
...take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature...as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe,... | |
 | Lee Ward - History - 2004 - 478 pages
...to take under theit care; but there is something absutd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its ptimary planet, and as England and Ametica, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of... | |
 | David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers - Science - 2010 - 442 pages
...into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion." In irreducibly naturalistic terms, Paine declared: "[I]n no instance hath nature made the satellite larger...as England and America, with respect to each Other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe... | |
 | Grace Roegner Freedman, Princeton Review - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...only I, II, and III 36. "There is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature...made the satellite larger than its primary planet." The above statement is an example of (A) the application of natural law to political theory (B) the... | |
 | Richard Saage - Political Science - 2012 - 336 pages
...their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually govemed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and äs England and America, with respect to each other, reserves the common order of nature, it is evident... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...unnatural. "There is something palpably absurd," Paine declared, "in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than the primary planet." Britain should revolve around America, not the other way around. Men "of passive... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb, Mrs. Burton Harrison - History - 2005 - 585 pages
...its geograjvhy and resources. "There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island ; in no instance hath nature made the satellite Lirgcr fliaii the primary planet." During the same memorable month of January General Schuyler performed... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2006 - 81 pages
...take under their care ; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet ; aud as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is... | |
 | Martin Brückner - History - 2006 - 294 pages
...perpetually governed by an island ... as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe, America to itself." Moses Mather packages the comparison more directly in the didactic terms of geographical... | |
 | Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 374 pages
...force of gravity were no different than republican politics when it came to transforming the past. "In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet," Paine contended. Why, then, should America revolve around England? Something had to be terribly wrong... | |
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