Tracts on Political & Other Subjects, Volumen1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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... human nature . IT is to be regretted , that wnen fome of the most ingenious men in foreign na- tions , in nations wherein they have been trained up and accustomed to arbitrary go- vernment , vernment , are diffeminating the most li ...
... human nature . IT is to be regretted , that wnen fome of the most ingenious men in foreign na- tions , in nations wherein they have been trained up and accustomed to arbitrary go- vernment , vernment , are diffeminating the most li ...
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... , ' that ever disgraced the reasoning faculties • of human nature * . ' 2 Tucker's Treatife concerning Civil Government , p . 22 . 3 Ibid . p . 112 . • Ibid . p . 160 . THESE THESE are ftrong affertions , and ex- preffed in terms [ 10 ]
... , ' that ever disgraced the reasoning faculties • of human nature * . ' 2 Tucker's Treatife concerning Civil Government , p . 22 . 3 Ibid . p . 112 . • Ibid . p . 160 . THESE THESE are ftrong affertions , and ex- preffed in terms [ 10 ]
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... human species , which naturally lead them to associate with each other , and which he confiders as amounting to fufficient evi- dence of their propenfity to government ; and here he expreffes himself with more clearness than at the ...
... human species , which naturally lead them to associate with each other , and which he confiders as amounting to fufficient evi- dence of their propenfity to government ; and here he expreffes himself with more clearness than at the ...
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... human creatures to affociate with their " like , " as only " a leading step towards civil fociety . " But it would be to little purpose to follow our author in all his inquiries upon this fubject , and to examine Ariftotle , Cicero ...
... human creatures to affociate with their " like , " as only " a leading step towards civil fociety . " But it would be to little purpose to follow our author in all his inquiries upon this fubject , and to examine Ariftotle , Cicero ...
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... human species , hath an unalienable ⚫ right to chufe , or refuse , whether he will be a member of this , or that particular 39 Effay on the First Principles of Government , p . 17 . 40 government , or of none at all 4 ° govern [ 59 ]
... human species , hath an unalienable ⚫ right to chufe , or refuse , whether he will be a member of this , or that particular 39 Effay on the First Principles of Government , p . 17 . 40 government , or of none at all 4 ° govern [ 59 ]
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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.