Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political TermsB. Fellows, 1832 - 264 sider |
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Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms Sir George Cornewall Lewis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1832 |
Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms Sir George Cornewall Lewis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1832 |
Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms Sir George Cornewall Lewis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1832 |
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Side 190 - joint tenant of the shade : The same his table, and the same his bed; No murder cloth'd him, and no murder fed. ******* * Ah, how unlike the man of times to come, Of half that live the butcher and the tomb ; Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan, Murders their species, and betrays his own."*
Side 190 - Nor think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God : Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man. Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid ; Man walk'd with
Side 180 - O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine
Side xiv - shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, he will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or hindrance of knowledge among mankind.
Side 17 - definition of municipal law, that it is " a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong"* proceeds
Side 53 - ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Side 181 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous
Side 201 - spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a free man.
Side 203 - which is that of a member of society, is no other than natural liberty, so far restrained by human laws (and no further) as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the
Side 213 - to choose a period of time when the people's consent was the least regarded in public transactions, it would be precisely on the establishment of a new government. In a settled constitution, their inclinations are often consulted; but during the fury of revolutions, conquests, and public convulsions, military force or political craft usually decides the