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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" it is lawful to resist a tyrant , and take up arms " in defence of their lives and liberties . We have " the utmost horror and detestation of these dia- " bolical principles , that may induce your people " to rise up in vindication of ...
" it is lawful to resist a tyrant , and take up arms " in defence of their lives and liberties . We have " the utmost horror and detestation of these dia- " bolical principles , that may induce your people " to rise up in vindication of ...
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... tyrant ? Yes , if perdition be the rule of power , If wrongs give right , O then , supreme in mis- chief , Thou wert the lord , the monarch of the world ! Too narrow for thy claim . But if thou think'st That crowns are vilely propertied ...
... tyrant ? Yes , if perdition be the rule of power , If wrongs give right , O then , supreme in mis- chief , Thou wert the lord , the monarch of the world ! Too narrow for thy claim . But if thou think'st That crowns are vilely propertied ...
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... tyrants ; A borrow'd jewel glittering in the crown With specious lustre , lent but to destroy . You had it , sir , and hold it from the people . T. FRANKLIN . Earl of Warwick , act iüi . Torrismond . GRANT she be [ a tyrant , an usurper ] ...
... tyrants ; A borrow'd jewel glittering in the crown With specious lustre , lent but to destroy . You had it , sir , and hold it from the people . T. FRANKLIN . Earl of Warwick , act iüi . Torrismond . GRANT she be [ a tyrant , an usurper ] ...
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... tyrant throne , And crush your free born brethren of the world ! Nay , to become a part of usurpation ; To espouse the tyrant's person and her crimes , And on a tyrant get a race of tyrants , To be your country's curse in after - ages ...
... tyrant throne , And crush your free born brethren of the world ! Nay , to become a part of usurpation ; To espouse the tyrant's person and her crimes , And on a tyrant get a race of tyrants , To be your country's curse in after - ages ...
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... tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this un- natural power corupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is surrounded ...
... tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner . But the truth is , this un- natural power corupts both the heart and the understanding . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is surrounded ...
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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.