Two Treatises on Civil Government: Preceded by Sir Robert Filmer |
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... desire to lead in this world a happy life . That life is led most happily wherein af virtue is exercised without impediment or let . To take away mutual grievances and wrongs there was no way but by an agreement among men , ordaining ...
... desire to lead in this world a happy life . That life is led most happily wherein af virtue is exercised without impediment or let . To take away mutual grievances and wrongs there was no way but by an agreement among men , ordaining ...
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... desire of liberty was the first cause of the fall of Adam . But howsoever this vulgar opinion hath of late obtained a great reputation , yet it is not to be found in the ancient fathers and doctors of the primitive Church . It ...
... desire of liberty was the first cause of the fall of Adam . But howsoever this vulgar opinion hath of late obtained a great reputation , yet it is not to be found in the ancient fathers and doctors of the primitive Church . It ...
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... desire and hope is that the people of England may and do enjoy as ample privileges as any nation under heaven ; the greatest liberty in the world ( if it be duly con- sidered ) is for a people to live under a monarch . It is the Magna ...
... desire and hope is that the people of England may and do enjoy as ample privileges as any nation under heaven ; the greatest liberty in the world ( if it be duly con- sidered ) is for a people to live under a monarch . It is the Magna ...
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... desires shall be subject unto thee , and thou shalt rule over him . " Accordingly , when Jacob bought his brother's birthright , Isaac blessed him thus : " Be lord over thy brethren , and let the sons of thy mother bow before thee ...
... desires shall be subject unto thee , and thou shalt rule over him . " Accordingly , when Jacob bought his brother's birthright , Isaac blessed him thus : " Be lord over thy brethren , and let the sons of thy mother bow before thee ...
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... desire or choose it . Xenophon , that brave scholar and soldier , disallowed the Athenian commonweal , for that they followed that form of government wherein the wicked are always in greatest credit , and virtuous men kept under . They ...
... desire or choose it . Xenophon , that brave scholar and soldier , disallowed the Athenian commonweal , for that they followed that form of government wherein the wicked are always in greatest credit , and virtuous men kept under . They ...
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Page 38 - And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin ; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life...
Page 93 - 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 158 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 156 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 96 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 158 - And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 204 - labour" being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
Page 49 - ... for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Page 207 - God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour was to be his title to it) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.
Page 17 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations : and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.