 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 524 pages
...Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections, the latter...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 444 pages
...Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections, the latter...restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, (he other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824 - 478 pages
...Society is produced by our wants and governments by our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections — the latter negatively, by restraining our vices." In the following paragraphs there is less likeness in the language, but the ideas in the one are evidently... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 pages
...Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a... | |
 | 1832 - 572 pages
...hap' piness positively, by uniting our affections ; the latter nega' tively, by restraining our vices. Society in every state is a ' blessing ; but government, even in its best state, is but a ne' cessary evil. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost in' nocence : the palaces of kings are... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835 - 552 pages
...Society is "produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively...creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a puriisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in Its best state, is but... | |
 | John Wade - 1835 - 640 pages
...Paine, " is produced by our wauls, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections ; the latter negatively by restraining our vices." This is an ingenious distinction ; but it would have been more correct to say, that society is produced... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...Paine, is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections; — the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. Society, in every state, is a blessing ; but government, even its best state, is but a necessary evil.... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...JAN. 29, (0. S.) 1737. AT GKEENWJCH, NEW-VOKF, JCNB 8, 1809. i o« THOMAS PAINE. FROM COMMON SENSE. Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1856 - 542 pages
...The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing,...necessary evil ; in its worst state an intolerable one ; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in... | |
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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. 
