The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... kind is the charter of the East India Com- pany . Magna Charta is a charter to restrain power , and to destroy monopoly . Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters ...
... kind is the charter of the East India Com- pany . Magna Charta is a charter to restrain power , and to destroy monopoly . Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters ...
Pàgina 8
... kind are all rights by mere conquest , power , or vio- lence . In the cool moments of reflection we are obliged to allow that the mode by which such a right is obtained , is not the best suited to that spirit of universal justice which ...
... kind are all rights by mere conquest , power , or vio- lence . In the cool moments of reflection we are obliged to allow that the mode by which such a right is obtained , is not the best suited to that spirit of universal justice which ...
Pàgina 10
... not much versed , Corporal , quoth my Uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I sup- pose God would not leave him without one any more than thee or me . It It would be putting one sadly over the head of 10 EQUALITY OF MANKIND .
... not much versed , Corporal , quoth my Uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I sup- pose God would not leave him without one any more than thee or me . It It would be putting one sadly over the head of 10 EQUALITY OF MANKIND .
Pàgina 17
... kind of clubs , seemed determined to dispatch them , with- out sense of hospitality or mercy . Here the gentleman began to discover , that the superiority of his blood was imaginary ; for , be- tween a consciousness of shame and cold ...
... kind of clubs , seemed determined to dispatch them , with- out sense of hospitality or mercy . Here the gentleman began to discover , that the superiority of his blood was imaginary ; for , be- tween a consciousness of shame and cold ...
Pàgina 18
It was not long before he had wreathed a kind of coronet of pretty workmanship , and rising , with respect approached the savage who appeared the chief , and placed it gently on his head ; whose figure under this new ornament so charmed ...
It was not long before he had wreathed a kind of coronet of pretty workmanship , and rising , with respect approached the savage who appeared the chief , and placed it gently on his head ; whose figure under this new ornament so charmed ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Pàgina 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Pàgina 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pàgina 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Pàgina 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Pàgina 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pàgina 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Pàgina 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Pàgina 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.