Two Treatises on Civil Government: Preceded by Sir Robert Filmer |
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... peace and to be taught the subject . Sir Robert Filmer was among Royalists of the time of Charles I. , who held that Hobbes had conceded too much when he based his theory of absolute sovereignty upon a social compact among men equal by ...
... peace and to be taught the subject . Sir Robert Filmer was among Royalists of the time of Charles I. , who held that Hobbes had conceded too much when he based his theory of absolute sovereignty upon a social compact among men equal by ...
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... peace , Abraham made a league with Abimelech , and ratified the articles with an oath . These acts of judging in capital crimes , of making war , and con- cluding peace , are the chiefest marks of sovereignty that are found in any ...
... peace , Abraham made a league with Abimelech , and ratified the articles with an oath . These acts of judging in capital crimes , of making war , and con- cluding peace , are the chiefest marks of sovereignty that are found in any ...
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... peace , his courts of justice , and all his acts of sovereignty , tend only to preserve and distribute to every subordinate and inferior father , and to their children , their rights and privileges , so that all the duties of a king are ...
... peace , his courts of justice , and all his acts of sovereignty , tend only to preserve and distribute to every subordinate and inferior father , and to their children , their rights and privileges , so that all the duties of a king are ...
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... peace and war , and the like , within their houses or families , he must give us leave , at least , to call them kings of their houses or families ; and if they be so by the law of Nature , what liberty will be left to their children to ...
... peace and war , and the like , within their houses or families , he must give us leave , at least , to call them kings of their houses or families ; and if they be so by the law of Nature , what liberty will be left to their children to ...
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... peace had been under Augustus . Even at those times when the Roman victories abroad did amaze the world , then the tragical slaughter of citizens at home deserved commiseration from their vanquished enemies . What though in that age of ...
... peace had been under Augustus . Even at those times when the Roman victories abroad did amaze the world , then the tragical slaughter of citizens at home deserved commiseration from their vanquished enemies . What though in that age of ...
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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.