 | Susannah Watts - 1804 - 164 pagini
...gratify the ambition and avarice of »* i individuals. These laws, however rude and imperfect, tended to afford security to property and, encourage men to...Thus commerce, with every ornamental and useful art, begaa first in corporate bodies, to animate society. But in those d.irk ages, force was necessary to... | |
 | William Richards - 1812 - 676 pagini
...gratify the ambition and avarice of individuals. " These laws, however rude and imperfect, tended to afford security to property, and encourage men to habits of industry. Thus commerce, with every prnamental and useful art, began first in corporate bodies to animate society. But in those dark ages... | |
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... hardships of feudal service; to have the right of disposing both of person and property, and to be governed by laws intended to promote the general good, and not to gratify the ambition and avarice of individuals. 