Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms |
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Page 186 - joint tenant of the shade : The same his table, and the same his bed ; No murder cloth'd him, and no murder fed. Ah, how unlike the man of times to come, Of half that live the butcher and the tomb ; Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan, Murders their species, and betrays his own."*
Page 186 - Nor think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God : Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man. Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid ; Man walk'd with
Page 176 - Milton, O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine
Page 9 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and, in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in government are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good, in compromises
Page 177 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions."! So
Page 13 - definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds
Page 49 - ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 229 - Now remains That we find out the cause of this effect; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect defective comes by cause.
Page 197 - spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a free man.
Page 199 - which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws (and no further) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the