 ... misapplication of names has confounded every thing. We are told, there is not a slave in France ; that when a slave sets his foot upon French ground, he becomes immediately free : and I say, that there is not a freeman in France, because the king...  The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher - Page 132by Andrew Fletcher - 1737 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...French ground, he becomes immediately free : and I fay, that there is not a freeman in France, bccaufe the king takes away any part of any man's property...will ? A flave properly is one, who is abfolutely fubjedted to the will of another man without any remedy : and not one that is only fubje&ed under certain... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...not a freeman in France, because the king takes away any part of any man's property at his pleasure ; and that let him do what he will to any man there is no remedy. The Turks tell us, there are no slaves among them, except Jews, Moors, or Christians ; and who is there that knows not they are all... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...not a freeman in France, because the king takes away any part of any man's property at his pleasure ; and that let him do what he will to any man there is no remedy. The Turks tell us, there are no slaves among them, except Jews, Moors, or Christians ; and who is there that knows not they are all... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1903 - 736 pages
...not a freeman in France, because the King takes away any part of any man's property at his pleasure ; and that, let him do what he will to any man, there is no remedy. The Turks tell us, there are no slaves among them, except Jews, Moors, or Christians ; and who is there who knows not, they are all... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - History - 1997 - 304 pages
...not a freeman in France, because the king takes away any part of any man's property at his pleasure; and that, let him do what he will to any man, there is no remedy. The Turks tell us, there are no slaves among them, except Jews, Moors, or Christians; and who is there that knows not, they are all... | |
 | Colin Kidd - History - 1999 - 314 pages
...'not a freeman in France, because the king takes away any part of any man's property at his pleasure; and that, let him do what he will to any man, there is no remedy'.78 But despotism and slavery were not innate in the French character; rather they were the... | |
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