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" ... to be precarious. The nobility, therefore, are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to support the throne; and, if that falls, they must also be buried under its ruins. "
A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar: And Present State of ... - Page 236
by William Guthrie, John Knox - 1801 - 1056 pages
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A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing ..., Volume 7

1767 - 542 pages
...to the prince ; rifmg like a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminiming to a point as it rifea. The nobility therefore are the pillars, which are...immediately to fupport the throne ; and if that falls, they muft alfo be buried under it's ruins. Accordingly, when in the laft century the commons had determined...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1

William Blackstone - 1771 - 506 pages
...that gradual fcale of dignity, which proceeds from the peufant •i the prince; riling like a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminiming to a point as it rifes. It is this afcending and contracting proportion that adds liability to any government ; for when the...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 57

Tobias Smollett - 1783 - 504 pages
...which would have been fo fatal to the power of the crown; fmce, according to Blackflone, " the nobility are the pillars which are reared from among the people,...immediately to fupport the throne ; and if that falls, they muft alfo be buried under its ruins." The nobility, therefore, in this cafe, having a common caufe...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 57

Tobias Smollett - 1783 - 508 pages
...would have been fo fatal to the power of the crown ; iinrc, according to Blackftone, " the nobility are the pillars which are reared from among the people, more immediately to iupport the throne ; and if that falls, they muft alfo be buried under its ruins." The nobility, therefore,...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 518 pages
...the departure is fuddcn from one extreme to another, we may pronounce that ftate to be precarious. The nobility therefore are the pillars, which are...to fupport the throne •, and, if that falls, they muft alfo be buried under it's ruins. Accordingly, when in the laft century the commons had determined...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volumes 1-4

Sir William Blackstone - 1791 - 516 pages
...that gradual fcale of dignity, which proceeds from the peafant to the prince ; rifmg like a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminiming to a point as it rifes. It is this afcending and contracting proportion that adds {lability to any government; for when the...
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The Britannic magazine; or entertaining repository of heroic ..., Volume 1

482 pages
...a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminiftiing to a point as it rifes. The nobility theretore are the pillars, which are reared from among the people,...immediately to fupport the throne ; and, if that falls, they muft allb be buried under its ruins. Accordingly, when in the laft century the commons had determined...
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The Elements of Useful Knowledge: Comprehending, Among Other Interesting ...

Jasper Adams, John Adams - 1793 - 358 pages
...that gradual fcale of dignity, which proceeds from the peafant to .the prince ; riling like a pyramid from a broad foundation, and diminiming to. a point as it rifes. The nobility therefore are the pUlars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to fupport the throne ; and if that...
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Belfast Politics: Or, A Collection of the Debates, Resolutions, and Other ...

William Bruce - 1794 - 348 pages
...the departure is fudden from one extreme to another, we may pronounce that ftate to be precarious.— The nobility therefore are the pillars, which are reared from among the people, more immediately to lupport the throne ; and if that falls, TIIIY muft alfo be buried under iti ruins." ON THE BRITISH...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 10, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 pages
...the departure is fudden from one extreme to another, we may pronounce that ftate to be precarious. The nobility therefore are the pillars, which are...immediately to fupport the throne ; and, if that falls, they mult alfo be buried under its ruins. Accordingly, when in the laft century the commons had determined...
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