Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... doubt ( as Sir Walter Raleigh affirms ) was by good right lord or king over his family ; yet against right did he enlarge his empire by seizing violently on the rights of other lords of families ; and in this sense he may be said to be ...
... doubt ( as Sir Walter Raleigh affirms ) was by good right lord or king over his family ; yet against right did he enlarge his empire by seizing violently on the rights of other lords of families ; and in this sense he may be said to be ...
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... doubt but Moses's history of the creation guided these two philosophers in finding out of this lineal subjection deduced from the laws of the first parents . according to that rule of St. Chrysostom , " God made all mankind of one man ...
... doubt but Moses's history of the creation guided these two philosophers in finding out of this lineal subjection deduced from the laws of the first parents . according to that rule of St. Chrysostom , " God made all mankind of one man ...
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... doubt how this distinct power comes to each particular community when God gave it to the whole multitude only , and not to any particular assembly of men . Can they show or prove that ever the whole mul- titude met and divided this ...
... doubt how this distinct power comes to each particular community when God gave it to the whole multitude only , and not to any particular assembly of men . Can they show or prove that ever the whole mul- titude met and divided this ...
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... doubt but if the people of Israel had had power to choose their king , they would never have made choice of Joas , a child but of seven years old , nor of Manasses , a boy of twelve ; since ( as Solomon saith ) " Woe to the land whose ...
... doubt but if the people of Israel had had power to choose their king , they would never have made choice of Joas , a child but of seven years old , nor of Manasses , a boy of twelve ; since ( as Solomon saith ) " Woe to the land whose ...
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... doubt but that it is natural ? Do we not find that in every family the government of one alone is most natural ? God did always govern His own people by monarchy only . The patriarchs , dukes , judges , and kings were all monarchs ...
... doubt but that it is natural ? Do we not find that in every family the government of one alone is most natural ? God did always govern His own people by monarchy only . The patriarchs , dukes , judges , and kings were all monarchs ...
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Page 159 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
Page 81 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 128 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 126 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 84 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 41 - ... for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Page 242 - This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative. For since in some governments the law-making power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow for the dispatch requisite to execution; and because also it is impossible to foresee, and so by laws to provide for all accidents and necessities that may concern the public, or...
Page 170 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands we may say are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 140 - And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Page 169 - Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence...