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... shall still enjoy their former liberty , and are not to be awakened till it prove too late . Of this there are many remarkable examples in history ; but that particular inftance which B 3 any I have I have chosen to infist on , as most ...
... shall still enjoy their former liberty , and are not to be awakened till it prove too late . Of this there are many remarkable examples in history ; but that particular inftance which B 3 any I have I have chosen to infist on , as most ...
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... shall deduce from their original , the causes , occafions , and the complication of those many unforeseen accidents ; which falling out much about the fame time , produced fo great a change . And it will at first fight feem very strange ...
... shall deduce from their original , the causes , occafions , and the complication of those many unforeseen accidents ; which falling out much about the fame time , produced fo great a change . And it will at first fight feem very strange ...
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... shall be proved hereafter ; yet allowing it to be good , what security can the nations have that these standing forces fhall not at some time or other be made use of to suppress the liberties of the people , though not in this king's ...
... shall be proved hereafter ; yet allowing it to be good , what security can the nations have that these standing forces fhall not at some time or other be made use of to suppress the liberties of the people , though not in this king's ...
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... And if it be ob- jected , that we shall stand in need of an army , in fuch a conjuncture ; I answer , that our part in that , or in any other fo- 2 reign reign war , will be beft managed by fea , 30 A Difcourfe of Government.
... And if it be ob- jected , that we shall stand in need of an army , in fuch a conjuncture ; I answer , that our part in that , or in any other fo- 2 reign reign war , will be beft managed by fea , 30 A Difcourfe of Government.
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... shall then live under , and any kind of government under a good prince ? Of which there have been some in the most defpotick tyrannies . If these be limited and not abfolute monarchies , then , as there are conditions , fo there ought ...
... shall then live under , and any kind of government under a good prince ? Of which there have been some in the most defpotick tyrannies . If these be limited and not abfolute monarchies , then , as there are conditions , fo there ought ...
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Page 142 - THERE are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church-boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Page 143 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 146 - I would propose upon the whole matter is, that for some present remedy of so great a mischief, every man of a certain estate in this nation should be obliged to take a proportionable number of those vagabonds, and either employ them in hedging and ditching his grounds, or any other sort of work in town and country; or if they happen to be children and young, that he should educate them in the knowledge of some mechanical art...
Page 368 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 287 - ... nation must always be a loser, nor apply for the remedies of our grievances to a court, where for the most part none are to be had. On the contrary, if these conditions of government be enacted, our constitution will be amended, and our grievances be easily redressed by a due execution of our own laws, which to this day we have never been able to obtain.
Page 270 - England, though to the betraying of the interest of this nation, whenever it comes in competition with that of England. And what less can be expected, unless we resolve to expect miracles, and that greedy, ambitious, and for the most part necessitous men, involved in great debts, burdened with great families, and having great titles to support, will lay down their places, rather than comply with an English interest...
Page 125 - And the reason why he recommends them rather to continue slaves (if they have embraced the Christian faith in that condition) seems to be that it might appear they did not embrace it for any worldly advantage, as well as to destroy a doctrine which even in his days began to be preached, that slavery was inconsistent with the Christian religion ; since such a doctrine would have been a great stop to the progress of it. What the Apostle means by saying, we ought not to be the slaves of men, I shall...
Page 124 - Let every one therefore, brethren, in whatever condition he is called, in that remain, in the fear of God.' That the interpretation I put upon this passage, different from our translation, is the true meaning of the apostle, not only the authority of the Greek fathers, and genuine signification of the Greek particles, but the whole context, chiefly the first and last words (which seem to be repeated to enforce and determine such a meaning) clearly...
Page 305 - Majefty's deceafe without heirs of her body, any confiderable military force (hould be in the hands of one or more men, who might have an underftanding together, we are not very fure what ufe they would make of them in fo nice and critical a conjuncture. We know that as the moft juft and honourable enterprizes, when they fail, are accounted in the number of rebellions j fo all attempts, however unjuft, if they fucceed, always purge themfelves of all guilt and imputation.