Two Treatises on Civil Government: Preceded by Sir Robert Filmer |
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... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
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... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
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... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
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... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state " Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- of this controversy . stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a ...
... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state " Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- of this controversy . stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a ...
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... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
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Page 46 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 93 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 158 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 156 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 96 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 158 - And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 49 - ... for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Page 240 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater...
Page 194 - For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise maker, all the servants of one sovereign master sent into the world by his order and about his business, they are his property whose workmanship they are — made to last during his, not one another's pleasure.
Page 201 - ... as far distant as a state of peace, good-will, mutual assistance, and preservation, and a state of enmity, malice, violence, and mutual destruction are one from another. Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature.