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... of Man , we ought to be understood to • Locke of Civil Government , c . vii . p . 188 . C 2 speak framed by God Man phyfically for fociety . fpeak of those rights , which are attributable to The Of the State of Nature . 19.
... of Man , we ought to be understood to • Locke of Civil Government , c . vii . p . 188 . C 2 speak framed by God Man phyfically for fociety . fpeak of those rights , which are attributable to The Of the State of Nature . 19.
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... speaking , we come to confider man in his real natural ftate , which is that of fociety . For Buchanan fays truly : * Buchanan of the due Privilege of the Scots Go- vernment , p . 198 . « First of all , then , we agree , " First 30 Of ...
... speaking , we come to confider man in his real natural ftate , which is that of fociety . For Buchanan fays truly : * Buchanan of the due Privilege of the Scots Go- vernment , p . 198 . « First of all , then , we agree , " First 30 Of ...
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... speak of the adoption of religion either by one or more individuals , I wish ever to be understood to speak of it , as of the free act of a free agent . True it is , that our bleffed Redeemer came upon earth to eftab- lifh the Christian ...
... speak of the adoption of religion either by one or more individuals , I wish ever to be understood to speak of it , as of the free act of a free agent . True it is , that our bleffed Redeemer came upon earth to eftab- lifh the Christian ...
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... speak of it first . It is the first , and laft , and midft in our minds . " Reflections on the Revolu- tion in France , p . 136 . rence , rence , although they should disapprove of , or condemn 100 Of the Civil Establishment of Religion .
... speak of it first . It is the first , and laft , and midft in our minds . " Reflections on the Revolu- tion in France , p . 136 . rence , rence , although they should disapprove of , or condemn 100 Of the Civil Establishment of Religion .
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... speak of thefe perfons , rather as po- litical opponents of the principles of the state , than religious diffenters from the doctrines of the church of England . By examining the doctrines of Dr. Priestley , refiftance exa- upon this ...
... speak of thefe perfons , rather as po- litical opponents of the principles of the state , than religious diffenters from the doctrines of the church of England . By examining the doctrines of Dr. Priestley , refiftance exa- upon this ...
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Page 486 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Page 35 - 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 18 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Page 148 - ... and then it is an oligarchy. Or else into the hands of one man, and then it is a monarchy; if to him and his heirs, it is...
Page 59 - Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other men's actions must, as well as their own and other men's actions, be conformable to the law of nature — ie, to the will of God, of which that is a declaration; and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good or valid against it.
Page 18 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 501 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 34 - MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, -without his own consent.
Page 450 - It can regulate or new model the succession to the crown ; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII. and William III. It can alter the...
Page 167 - I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our great restorer, our present king William; to make good his title in the consent of the people ; which being the only one of all lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom ; and to justify to the world the people of England, whose love of their just and natural rights, with their resolution to preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin.