Tracts on Political & Other Subjects, Volumen1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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... principles of Mr. Locke , and fun- dry extracts from his Treatife . Character of that celebrated Philofopher , and obfer- vations on the tendency and merit of his Writings . Conclufion . A VINDICATION , & c . SECT . I. T CONTENTS .
... principles of Mr. Locke , and fun- dry extracts from his Treatife . Character of that celebrated Philofopher , and obfer- vations on the tendency and merit of his Writings . Conclufion . A VINDICATION , & c . SECT . I. T CONTENTS .
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... character and manners of our ancestors . " The old English hof , " pitality , " fays he , " fo much boasted of , ❝and fo little understood , was for the most part dedicated to the very purpofes of re- " taining and feeding , in the ...
... character and manners of our ancestors . " The old English hof , " pitality , " fays he , " fo much boasted of , ❝and fo little understood , was for the most part dedicated to the very purpofes of re- " taining and feeding , in the ...
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... character as a writer the Dean of Glocefter has la- boured to degrade , whose sentiments he has misrepresented , and whose opinions he flatters himself that he has confuted . these efforts are fruitless , and these imagi- nations are ...
... character as a writer the Dean of Glocefter has la- boured to degrade , whose sentiments he has misrepresented , and whose opinions he flatters himself that he has confuted . these efforts are fruitless , and these imagi- nations are ...
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... character . But the use that has been fince made of you , renders it fufficiently apparent , that a penfion was conferred on you with other views . It now seems pro- bable , that your known Jacobitical prin- ciples , which , however ...
... character . But the use that has been fince made of you , renders it fufficiently apparent , that a penfion was conferred on you with other views . It now seems pro- bable , that your known Jacobitical prin- ciples , which , however ...
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... character ; " and you have pro- bably the fame ideas of the acceptance of a PENSION . But furely the characters of thofe men are contaminated , who are in- duced by a place , to facrifice the rights of their country ; or , by a penfion ...
... character ; " and you have pro- bably the fame ideas of the acceptance of a PENSION . But furely the characters of thofe men are contaminated , who are in- duced by a place , to facrifice the rights of their country ; or , by a penfion ...
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Página 410 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 26 - For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority...
Página 116 - ... being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason, for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it.
Página 124 - The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative is that there may be laws made and rules set as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power and moderate the dominion of every part and member of the society...
Página 121 - For it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person or assembly which is legislator, it can be no more than those persons had in a state of Nature before they entered into society, and gave it up to the community.
Página 129 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going...
Página 17 - ... reason has left it, may lead, we may be satisfied, when we see the bare name of a town, of which there remains not so much as the ruins, where scarce so much housing as a...
Página 55 - It is true that whatever engagements or promises any one has made for himself, he is under the obligation of them, but cannot by any compact whatsoever bind his children or posterity. For his son, when a man, being altogether as free as the father, any act of the father can no more give away the liberty of the son than it can of anybody else.
Página 410 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 35 - a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws"; but freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it, a liberty to follow my own will in all things where the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man; as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature.