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... from passages of the most celebrated writers , and writers favouring the highest
tone of authority , which have dropped from them unawares , inconsistently with
their professed hypotheses , and , on that account , entitled to tenfold credit .
... from passages of the most celebrated writers , and writers favouring the highest
tone of authority , which have dropped from them unawares , inconsistently with
their professed hypotheses , and , on that account , entitled to tenfold credit .
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If these natural rights are farther affirmed and declared by express covenants , if
they are clearly defined and secured against chicane , against power and
authority , by written instruments and positive engagements , they are in a still
better ...
If these natural rights are farther affirmed and declared by express covenants , if
they are clearly defined and secured against chicane , against power and
authority , by written instruments and positive engagements , they are in a still
better ...
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Turn me a prey to the wild beasts of the desart , so I be never again the victim of
man dressed in the gore dripping robes of authority ! Suffer me at least to call life
and the pursuits of life my own ! Let me hold it at the mercy of elements , of the ...
Turn me a prey to the wild beasts of the desart , so I be never again the victim of
man dressed in the gore dripping robes of authority ! Suffer me at least to call life
and the pursuits of life my own ! Let me hold it at the mercy of elements , of the ...
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... are the natural , lawful , and competent judges of this matter . I never knew a
writer on the theory of government so partial to authority , as not to allow , that the
hostile mind of the rulers to their people , did , fully justify a change of government
...
... are the natural , lawful , and competent judges of this matter . I never knew a
writer on the theory of government so partial to authority , as not to allow , that the
hostile mind of the rulers to their people , did , fully justify a change of government
...
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Since the kingor magistrate holds his authority off the people , for their good , and
not his own , then may the people , as oft as they shall judge it for the best , either
chuse him or reject him , retain him or depose him , though no tyrant , mereJy ...
Since the kingor magistrate holds his authority off the people , for their good , and
not his own , then may the people , as oft as they shall judge it for the best , either
chuse him or reject him , retain him or depose him , though no tyrant , mereJy ...
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Página 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Página 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Página 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
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| Título | The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
| Editora | H. D. Symonds, 1795 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalizado | 21 set. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 406 páginas |
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