 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 lehte
...other. In fuch cafes, he who has confidered, in the hiftories of former ages, the ftrange revolution* that time produces, and the perpetual flux and reflux of public as well as private fortune?, of king-. doms and ftates as well as of thofe who govern or are governed in them, will incline... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 lehte
...exorbitant become more fo ; and left, by attacking with good fuccefs, whilft one fcale is pilla^rd, too much weight of power be thrown into the other....the ftrange revolutions that time produces, and the perperual flux and reflux of public as well as private fortunes, of kingdoms and ftates as well as... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.), Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1870 - 318 lehte
...into the other. In such cases, he who has considered, in the histories of former ages, the strange revolutions that time produces, and the perpetual...public as well as private fortunes, of kingdoms and states as well as of those who govern or are governed in them, will incline to think, that if the scales... | |
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... of those who govern or are governed in them, will incline to think, that if the scales can be brought back by a war, nearly, though not exactly, to the point they were at before this... 