The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 páginas |
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... fellow , citizens . Rouse all the powers of human nature to oppose this subversion of social laws . Teach mankind that liberty is the institution of God ; authority that of man . Expose those mysterious arts which hold the world in ...
... fellow , citizens . Rouse all the powers of human nature to oppose this subversion of social laws . Teach mankind that liberty is the institution of God ; authority that of man . Expose those mysterious arts which hold the world in ...
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... fellows , and almost squeezed to death in the operation of being carried to prison , though he makes no resistance . The spirit of despotism is to let the people have G3 na : no rest , and this emperor has added , DESPOTISM . ΙΟΙ.
... fellows , and almost squeezed to death in the operation of being carried to prison , though he makes no resistance . The spirit of despotism is to let the people have G3 na : no rest , and this emperor has added , DESPOTISM . ΙΟΙ.
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... fellow creature for stealing from me fourteen shillings and three - pence , how can I approve of a law that does it Montesquieu , who was himself a judge , endeavours to impress Other 1 other maxims . He must have known what hu mane 142 ...
... fellow creature for stealing from me fourteen shillings and three - pence , how can I approve of a law that does it Montesquieu , who was himself a judge , endeavours to impress Other 1 other maxims . He must have known what hu mane 142 ...
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... fellow creatures . -It is a war of a whole nation against a citizen , whose destruction they consider as useful to the general good . If the experience of all ages be not sufficient to show that the punishment of death has never pre ...
... fellow creatures . -It is a war of a whole nation against a citizen , whose destruction they consider as useful to the general good . If the experience of all ages be not sufficient to show that the punishment of death has never pre ...
Página 147
... fellow creatures , the laws , which are intended to moderate the fe- rocity of mankind , should not increase it by ex- amples of barbarity , the more horrible as this pu- nishment is usually attended with formal pagean- try ... Is it ...
... fellow creatures , the laws , which are intended to moderate the fe- rocity of mankind , should not increase it by ex- amples of barbarity , the more horrible as this pu- nishment is usually attended with formal pagean- try ... Is it ...
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Página 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Página 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Página 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.