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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... ment are now at issue . The partisans of both are guilty of considerable error in the mode of conducting their respective causes : the defenders of the old systems are stub- bornly bent upon not relaxing in the slight- est particular ...
... ment are now at issue . The partisans of both are guilty of considerable error in the mode of conducting their respective causes : the defenders of the old systems are stub- bornly bent upon not relaxing in the slight- est particular ...
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... ment , and even of society itself . The charters which we call by distinction great , are public in- struments of this nature ; I mean the charters of King John and King Henry the Third . The things secured by these instruments may ...
... ment , and even of society itself . The charters which we call by distinction great , are public in- struments of this nature ; I mean the charters of King John and King Henry the Third . The things secured by these instruments may ...
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... ment of the natural dispositions of mankind either for or against slavery ; but rather from the prodi- gious efforts of every free people to prevent op- pression . I am sensible that the former frequent- ly declaim in favour of the ...
... ment of the natural dispositions of mankind either for or against slavery ; but rather from the prodi- gious efforts of every free people to prevent op- pression . I am sensible that the former frequent- ly declaim in favour of the ...
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... ment so partial to authority , as not to allow , that the hostile mind of the rulers to their people , did fully justify a change of government . IDEM . Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol , p . 26.55 . 34 . In the situation in which we stand ...
... ment so partial to authority , as not to allow , that the hostile mind of the rulers to their people , did fully justify a change of government . IDEM . Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol , p . 26.55 . 34 . In the situation in which we stand ...
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... ment being at the same time determined ) a stand- ing legislature , to whom , under these pre - esta- blished restrictions , the government of the state was thenceforward committed , and whose laws the the several members of the ...
... ment being at the same time determined ) a stand- ing legislature , to whom , under these pre - esta- blished restrictions , the government of the state was thenceforward committed , and whose laws the the several members of the ...
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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.