Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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... Necessity Sect . IV . - Containing some relieving Considerations , drawn from particular Topics ; —from the Pliability of Man to his external Situation ; -from the great and good Examples frequently displayed in a hostile Pe- riod ...
... Necessity Sect . IV . - Containing some relieving Considerations , drawn from particular Topics ; —from the Pliability of Man to his external Situation ; -from the great and good Examples frequently displayed in a hostile Pe- riod ...
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... necessity . If every man was provided with a stock of the necessaries of life , or had wealth to purchase them , we should see few shuttles in motion , and few ploughs turning up the soil , till the time came when , having wasted their ...
... necessity . If every man was provided with a stock of the necessaries of life , or had wealth to purchase them , we should see few shuttles in motion , and few ploughs turning up the soil , till the time came when , having wasted their ...
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... necessity ; which is the only weight that , in this case , can keep the political machine in motion . And all that can reasonably be proposed by human go- vernment , till there shall be a general pre- valence of religious principle in ...
... necessity ; which is the only weight that , in this case , can keep the political machine in motion . And all that can reasonably be proposed by human go- vernment , till there shall be a general pre- valence of religious principle in ...
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... necessity , of that policy , by which every one enjoys his peculium under the joint protection of the community . For a man to possess something that he can say is mine , to sit down in his own house as in a castle , and quietly eat the ...
... necessity , of that policy , by which every one enjoys his peculium under the joint protection of the community . For a man to possess something that he can say is mine , to sit down in his own house as in a castle , and quietly eat the ...
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... necessity of labour , but by a most detestable division of mankind into freemen and slaves ; by which the one part constitute themselves the lords and tyrants of the other . This we know was a practice with the most cele- brated ...
... necessity of labour , but by a most detestable division of mankind into freemen and slaves ; by which the one part constitute themselves the lords and tyrants of the other . This we know was a practice with the most cele- brated ...
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