...had been hesitant about it radically changed their minds. This pamphlet abounded in striking sayings: "The palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise," " Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians...

...one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect every other case advises him, out of two evils surfer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon...

...government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. . . . Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the the bowers of Paradise. The state is but one of the many institutions that make up modern society....

...the dreary dialectic of authority, but honest Tom Paine for whose sake Blake wore the bonnet rouge: "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the powers of paradise." Although the chief gift of the eighteenth century had little...

...intolerable one. For when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government which we might effect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened...of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of Paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly...

...were in the first instance disaffection from the King of Heaven. The resultant government by kings "is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings...paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear . . . and irresistibly obeyed, Man would need no other law-giver." A survey of the history of monarchic...

...where he is arguing that "government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil," and says : "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence...are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise" (the passage illustrates, incidentally, what Paul Fussell never quite pressed home to its full implications,...

...failed themselves. By a shameful want of moral courage, mankind had surrendered up its birthright: "the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." In the beginning, as he pictured it, there were a handful of persons settled in some sequestered corner...

...)1776), where he is arguing that "government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil', and adds: 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;...of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise'79 )the passage illustrates, incidentally, what Fussell never quite pressed toils full implications,...

...universal felicity'. 91 On the first page of his tract Common Sense (1776), Paine had written that 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.' B2 With the dismantling of the monarchy in France, it seemed...