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 Seiten |
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... danger of being the last in the royal favour . ADDISON . Whig Examiner , No. v . ABSURD prejudices have perverted human rea- son , and even stifled that instinct which teaches animals to resist oppression and tyranny . Multi- tudes of ...
... danger of being the last in the royal favour . ADDISON . Whig Examiner , No. v . ABSURD prejudices have perverted human rea- son , and even stifled that instinct which teaches animals to resist oppression and tyranny . Multi- tudes of ...
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... danger is to be preferred to servitude with security . ONE may venture to affirm , that all honest and disinterested Britons , of what party soever , if they understood one another , are of the same opinion in points of government : and ...
... danger is to be preferred to servitude with security . ONE may venture to affirm , that all honest and disinterested Britons , of what party soever , if they understood one another , are of the same opinion in points of government : and ...
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... danger to a man out of that profession , to make the least step : without their advice and assistance . Thus by confining to themselves the knowledge of the foundation of all men's lives and properties , they have reduced all mankind to ...
... danger to a man out of that profession , to make the least step : without their advice and assistance . Thus by confining to themselves the knowledge of the foundation of all men's lives and properties , they have reduced all mankind to ...
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... indignation against " the instruments of it . But , " he adds , " there . " is no danger of either from a strict adherence to " the laws , " - Really ! -Is it then impossible to make ་ make an unjust law ? And if the law 140 PENAL LAWS .
... indignation against " the instruments of it . But , " he adds , " there . " is no danger of either from a strict adherence to " the laws , " - Really ! -Is it then impossible to make ་ make an unjust law ? And if the law 140 PENAL LAWS .
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... danger ; that , as their faces are like ours , their hearts are so too ; that few minds are so base as that perseverance cannot amend ; that a man may see his last crime with- out dying for it ; and that very little blood will serve to ...
... danger ; that , as their faces are like ours , their hearts are so too ; that few minds are so base as that perseverance cannot amend ; that a man may see his last crime with- out dying for it ; and that very little blood will serve to ...
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Seite 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,
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.