 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1904 - 582 pages
...out that liberty was a social mean and that the principle was developed through strife inasmuch as "in every human society there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the highest power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery." Burlamaqui... | |
 | United States. Continental Congress - Constitutional history - 1904 - 212 pages
...some of its most important branches. "In every human society," says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria, "there is an effort, continually tending to confer on one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes - United States - 1905 - 594 pages
...and the writings of the Encyclopaedists. They studied that sentence of Beccaria which declares that "in every human society there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the highest power and happiness and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery." From this... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Fourth of July - 1912 - 328 pages
...is tyrannical," made a most profound impression in America. He laid down also the principle that " in every human society there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the highest power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery." That sentence... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - Political Science - 1918 - 774 pages
...some of its most important branches. 'In every human society, (says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria) there is an effort continually tending to confer on...reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.'... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - Canada - 1918 - 754 pages
...some of its most important branches. 'In every human society, (says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria) there is an effort continually tending to confer on...reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.'... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - Law - 1986 - 292 pages
...aggressive.3 The Continental Congress in its Address to the Inhabitants of Quebec quoted Marquis Beccaria: "In every human society . . . there is an effort, continually tending to confer on one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The... | |
 | William S. Laufer, Freda Adler - Social Science - 212 pages
...103). In the introduction to his Essay Beccaria summed up his radicalism in these words: "In every society there is an effort continually tending to...on one part the height of power and happiness, and reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery" (p. xii). Such words could well have been written... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...following forcible words quoted from the Marquis Beccaria. "In every human society, there is an essay continually tending to confer on one part the height...reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally."... | |
 | David Thomas Konig - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...join their movement. Quoting "the celebrated Marquis Beccaria," it established as a principle that "In every human society there is an effort, continually tending to confer on one part the heighth of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The... | |
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In every human society," says the celebrated Marquis Beccaria, " there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is... 
