...of opposition to the principle of contract, indeed by ridicule. Society is indeed a contract . . . but the state ought not to be considered as nothing...agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico and tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to...

...Thoughts and Details. Consider, for example, the oft-quoted passage in Reflections in which he says: Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement...

...sometimes by individuals of considerable stature: consider, for example, Burke's famous passage on 'a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco'; and Coleridge's On the Constitution of the Chuech and State." Blackfrequenth; hut 'state' docs so rareh...

...people of yesterday, as a nation of low-born servile wretches until the emancipating year of 1789. [Ill] Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...reminded of the famous passage in Reflections on the Revolution in France in which Burke insists that "the state ought not to be considered as nothing better...calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern ... it is a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection."31 The state, moreover, for Leibniz,...

...regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life. Society is indeed a contract/0 Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional...partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...time. As Burke wrote at the opening of a previous revolutionary period in Europe, a sense of belonging ought not to be considered as nothing better than...a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco.' It is a partnership 'not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those...

...Burke remarks 'the state ought not to be considered nothing better than a partnership agreement in the trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or...for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved at the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; Demos 85 because it is not...

...wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement...

...of social institutions. As did Edmund Burke, who protested against a society conceived and conducted as "nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco ... to be taken up for a little temporary interest and to be dissolved at the pleasure of the parties,"...