Tracts on Political & Other Subjects, Volume 1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796 |
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... writers on that fub- ject . Strictures on the fyftem of govern- ment exhibited to the public by the Dean of Glocefter . On the equality of mankind . On the Revolution . On the civility and decency , with which Mr. Locke , and his ...
... writers on that fub- ject . Strictures on the fyftem of govern- ment exhibited to the public by the Dean of Glocefter . On the equality of mankind . On the Revolution . On the civility and decency , with which Mr. Locke , and his ...
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... writer ; prin- ciples , which have been deservedly ap- plauded by fome of the wifeft men of this , as well as of other countries ; and the fo- lidity of which has been generally admitted , by the fincerest and most enlightened friends ...
... writer ; prin- ciples , which have been deservedly ap- plauded by fome of the wifeft men of this , as well as of other countries ; and the fo- lidity of which has been generally admitted , by the fincerest and most enlightened friends ...
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... writers , in this free country , la- bouring to difcredit and discountenance thofe principles of public freedom , to which Great Britain owes , more than to any other caufe , its dignity and celebrity among the nations of the world . If ...
... writers , in this free country , la- bouring to difcredit and discountenance thofe principles of public freedom , to which Great Britain owes , more than to any other caufe , its dignity and celebrity among the nations of the world . If ...
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... writer , are highly rational and just , and calculated , so far as they are attended to , for the promotion of the great interests of mankind . It may , however , be observed , that in vindicating the principles of Mr. Locke , it is not ...
... writer , are highly rational and just , and calculated , so far as they are attended to , for the promotion of the great interests of mankind . It may , however , be observed , that in vindicating the principles of Mr. Locke , it is not ...
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... writers on the repub- ⚫lican fide of the question , with Mr. Locke at the head of them , feem to represent ' civil government at the best , rather as 6 a neceffary evil , than a positive good ; - an evil to which mankind are obliged to ...
... writers on the repub- ⚫lican fide of the question , with Mr. Locke at the head of them , feem to represent ' civil government at the best , rather as 6 a neceffary evil , than a positive good ; - an evil to which mankind are obliged to ...
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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.