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... establish the other . Different Jinds of governments have certainly existed in the world , and mankind have ... established . If the actions of men can have no influence on the world , morality is a farce , wisdom is folly , and ...
... establish the other . Different Jinds of governments have certainly existed in the world , and mankind have ... established . If the actions of men can have no influence on the world , morality is a farce , wisdom is folly , and ...
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... deluded man . Thus man was robb'd , thus earth was turned to hell , When thrones were rais'd , and blissful freedom fell : Thus usurpations , in this brutal ( 5 ) way , D At first , established all monarchal gway ; And ev'ry ( 25 )
... deluded man . Thus man was robb'd , thus earth was turned to hell , When thrones were rais'd , and blissful freedom fell : Thus usurpations , in this brutal ( 5 ) way , D At first , established all monarchal gway ; And ev'ry ( 25 )
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Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biography Jacob Franklin Heston. At first , established all monarchal gway ; And ev'ry man who fills or holds a throne , Deriv'd his title from this cause alone Or else that rule which men ...
Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biography Jacob Franklin Heston. At first , established all monarchal gway ; And ev'ry man who fills or holds a throne , Deriv'd his title from this cause alone Or else that rule which men ...
Strona 143
... rule . which they have established , can impose any restriction on the government ; and yet it is limited . The kings person is sacred , intangible , above the laws , and not lia ble to be restrained or punished , and yet he ( 143 )
... rule . which they have established , can impose any restriction on the government ; and yet it is limited . The kings person is sacred , intangible , above the laws , and not lia ble to be restrained or punished , and yet he ( 143 )
Strona 147
... establish a governmet for themselves , but at the same time , by the very nature of the establishment , preclude ... established con- sent to it because it is a demonstrable infringement of the rights of posterity . : Nothing is more ...
... establish a governmet for themselves , but at the same time , by the very nature of the establishment , preclude ... established con- sent to it because it is a demonstrable infringement of the rights of posterity . : Nothing is more ...
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Strona 3 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Strona 311 - Cat/iolicce, and against Luther, who had just begun the Reformation in Germany, upon which the pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith, a title still retained by the monarcbs of Great Britain: the bull conferring it bears date Oct.
Strona 194 - Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was...
Strona 193 - King to the bar, it had been treason in them ; and as to the part he had in the action with which he was charged, he was so far from repenting what he had done, that he was most ready to seal it with his blood...
Strona 210 - On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with...
Strona 273 - He applied the golden rule of " doing to others as he would that others should do unto him," which for the present put an end to the discussion.
Strona 245 - ... the Diversions of Purley," first published in octavo in 1786. The work was afterwards enlarged into two volumes quarto, but never completed. In the introduction, the author, with reference to his own political opinions, has humorously alluded to Purley having been once the seat of Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice at the trial of Charles I. Respecting the contents of this work, the critical " doctors " of the time did decidedly differ, and a tractable but weak-minded reader must...
Strona 193 - ... their detestation of such usage. At the place of execution, among other things, he declared that he had used the utmost of his endeavours that the practice of the law might be regulated, and that the...
Strona 188 - ... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants of Rome...