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That those who are employed in the legislative and executive business of the
state may be restrained from oppression , the people have a right , at suci periods
as they may think proper , to reduce their public officers to a private station , and ...
That those who are employed in the legislative and executive business of the
state may be restrained from oppression , the people have a right , at suci periods
as they may think proper , to reduce their public officers to a private station , and ...
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All power being originally inherent in , and consequently derived from , the
people , therefore all officers of government , whether legislative or executive ,
are their trustees and servants , and at all times accountable to thein .
Government is , or ...
All power being originally inherent in , and consequently derived from , the
people , therefore all officers of government , whether legislative or executive ,
are their trustees and servants , and at all times accountable to thein .
Government is , or ...
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What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of
government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the
people by an oppression , the mord severely felt , as it is near them and
exercised ...
What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of
government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the
people by an oppression , the mord severely felt , as it is near them and
exercised ...
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great men hid themselves in corners , and durst not pay their court to him till he
had satiated his thirst of blood by the death of some of his loyal commoners , or of
such unwary officers of state as chanced to come in his way . it isn ' - Such was ...
great men hid themselves in corners , and durst not pay their court to him till he
had satiated his thirst of blood by the death of some of his loyal commoners , or of
such unwary officers of state as chanced to come in his way . it isn ' - Such was ...
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As he went to execution he mer an officer escorting provisicns . . “ For whom are
those provisions ? ” said the poor condemned wretch . “ For the caliph ' s “ dogs ,
" replied the officer . - How much better , " cried the Arab , “ is the condition of a ...
As he went to execution he mer an officer escorting provisicns . . “ For whom are
those provisions ? ” said the poor condemned wretch . “ For the caliph ' s “ dogs ,
" replied the officer . - How much better , " cried the Arab , “ is the condition of a ...
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Página 29 - 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 312 - 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 273 - 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 401 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 35 - 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 285 - 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 33 - 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 291 - 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 330 - 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 230 - 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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