Tracts on Political & Other Subjects, Volume 1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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Page 127
... . LOCKE defines tyranny in the fol- lowing terms : Tyranny is the exercise ⚫ of power beyond right , which nobody ⚫ can have a right to . And this is making 96 § . 163 . • use ufe of the power any one has in his ⚫ [ 127 ]
... . LOCKE defines tyranny in the fol- lowing terms : Tyranny is the exercise ⚫ of power beyond right , which nobody ⚫ can have a right to . And this is making 96 § . 163 . • use ufe of the power any one has in his ⚫ [ 127 ]
Page 128
... uses it ; and in that ftate all former ties are can- celled , all other rights ceafe , and every one has a right to defend himself , and • to refift the aggreffor 99 . 6 97 § . 199 . 98 § . 232 . THE * THE doctrines of Mr. Locke concern ...
... uses it ; and in that ftate all former ties are can- celled , all other rights ceafe , and every one has a right to defend himself , and • to refift the aggreffor 99 . 6 97 § . 199 . 98 § . 232 . THE * THE doctrines of Mr. Locke concern ...
Page 139
... use of their power , and employ it for the • destruction , and not the preservation of the properties of the people 1o7 ? ' 107 106 § . 226 . 107 § . 229 . THE THE principles of government laid down- by Mr. Locke , [ 139 ]
... use of their power , and employ it for the • destruction , and not the preservation of the properties of the people 1o7 ? ' 107 106 § . 226 . 107 § . 229 . THE THE principles of government laid down- by Mr. Locke , [ 139 ]
Page 149
... 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 ftrange it may be ...
... 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 ftrange it may be ...
Page 170
... thing fo abfurd . But if you mean , that no man , confiftently with the character of a true patriot , can promise to use his endeavours , and to vote for short- fhortening the duration of parliaments , for repealing bad laws [ 179 ]
... thing fo abfurd . But if you mean , that no man , confiftently with the character of a true patriot , can promise to use his endeavours , and to vote for short- fhortening the duration of parliaments , for repealing bad laws [ 179 ]
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 410 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 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.