Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Lockeprinted MDCLXXXVIIII reprinted, the sixth time, by A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers [and 16 others in London], 1764 - Liberty - 416 pages |
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This is the foundation on which his absolute monarchy stands , and from which it
erects itself to an height , that its power is above every power , caput inter nubila ,
so high above all earthly and human things , that thought can scarce reach it ...
This is the foundation on which his absolute monarchy stands , and from which it
erects itself to an height , that its power is above every power , caput inter nubila ,
so high above all earthly and human things , that thought can scarce reach it ...
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... doubtfulness of the meaning ; let us go on to his ' next argument , for Adam's
sovereignty . Our author tells us in the words of Mr. Selden , that Adam by
donation from God , Gen. i . 28. was made the general lord of all things , not
without such ...
... doubtfulness of the meaning ; let us go on to his ' next argument , for Adam's
sovereignty . Our author tells us in the words of Mr. Selden , that Adam by
donation from God , Gen. i . 28. was made the general lord of all things , not
without such ...
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2. and God made the beasts of the earth after his kind , and cattle after their kind ,
and every thing that creepeth on the earth after his kind : here , in the creation of
the brute inhabitants of the earth , he first speaks of them all under one general ...
2. and God made the beasts of the earth after his kind , and cattle after their kind ,
and every thing that creepeth on the earth after his kind : here , in the creation of
the brute inhabitants of the earth , he first speaks of them all under one general ...
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And if God made all mankind Naves to Adam and his heirs by giving Adam
dominion over every living thing that moveth on the earth , ch . i . 28. as our
author would have it , methinks Sir Robert should have carried his monarchical
power one ...
And if God made all mankind Naves to Adam and his heirs by giving Adam
dominion over every living thing that moveth on the earth , ch . i . 28. as our
author would have it , methinks Sir Robert should have carried his monarchical
power one ...
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Into your hands they are given , says God to Noah and his fons ; which words , if
they give not property , nay , property in poffeffion , it will be hard to find words
that can ; since there is not a way to express a man's being possessed of any
thing ...
Into your hands they are given , says God to Noah and his fons ; which words , if
they give not property , nay , property in poffeffion , it will be hard to find words
that can ; since there is not a way to express a man's being possessed of any
thing ...
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Page 25 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 25 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 215 - And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting is thought his who pursues her during the chase. For being a beast that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession, whoever has employed so much labour...
Page 215 - It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c. makes a right to them, then any one may engross as much as he will. To which I answer, Not so. The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too. "God has given us all things richly,
Page 212 - The fruit or venison which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his (ie a part of him) that another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life.
Page 191 - Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, and all this only for the public good.
Page 195 - ... what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint. For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment.
Page 318 - Fourthly, the legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 382 - Every one is at the disposure of his own will when those who had by the delegation of the society the declaring of the public will are excluded from it, and others usurp the place who have no such authority or delegation.
Page 298 - I say that every man that hath any possession or enjoyment of any part of the dominions of any government doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government during such enjoyment as any one under it...
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| Title | Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Locke Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | John Locke |
| Editor | Thomas Hollis |
| Publisher | printed MDCLXXXVIIII reprinted, the sixth time, by A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers [and 16 others in London], 1764 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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