Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
... Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please , and that the power which any one man hath over others was at first bestowed according to the ...
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... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
... mankind , and liberty to choose what form of government it please . And though Sir John Heywood , Adam Blackwood , John Barclay , and some others have learnedly confuted both Buchanan and Parsons , and bravely vindicated the right of ...
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... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
... mankind take offence at the liberty I take to examine it , they must take heed that they do not deny by retail that liberty which they affirm by wholesale . For if the thesis be true , the hypo- thesis will follow , that all men may ...
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... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state of this controversy . " Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a ...
... mankind , I will lay down some pas- sages of Cardinal Bellarmine , that may best unfold the state of this controversy . " Secular or civil power ( saith he ) is in- stituted by men ; it is in the people , unless they bestow it on a ...
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... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
... mankind , Aristotle doth not speak according to his own judgment , but recites only the opinion of others , we find him clearly deliver his own opinion , that the power of government did originally arise from the right of fatherhood ...
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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...