Two Treatises of Government: By Iohn Lockeprinted MDCLXXXVIIII reprinted, the sixth time, by A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington, L. Davis and C. Reymers [and 16 others in London], 1764 - 416 pages |
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... should have filled up the middle , and were more than all the reft , it is not worth while to tell thee . Thefe , which remain , I hope are fufficient to efta- blish the throne of our great reftorer , our prefent King William ; to make ...
... should have filled up the middle , and were more than all the reft , it is not worth while to tell thee . Thefe , which remain , I hope are fufficient to efta- blish the throne of our great reftorer , our prefent King William ; to make ...
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... should not fpeak fo plainly of a gentleman , long fince past answering , had not the pulpit , of late years , publicly owned his doctrine , and made it the current divinity of the times . It is neceffary those men , who taking on them ...
... should not fpeak fo plainly of a gentleman , long fince past answering , had not the pulpit , of late years , publicly owned his doctrine , and made it the current divinity of the times . It is neceffary those men , who taking on them ...
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... should not have writ againft Sir Robert , or taken the pains to fhew his mistakes , inconsistencies , and want of ( what he so much boasts of , and pretends wholly to build on ) scripture - proofs , were there not men amongst us , who ...
... should not have writ againft Sir Robert , or taken the pains to fhew his mistakes , inconsistencies , and want of ( what he so much boasts of , and pretends wholly to build on ) scripture - proofs , were there not men amongst us , who ...
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... should plead for it . And truly I should have taken Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , as any other treatise , which would perfuade all men , that they are flaves , and ought to be fo , for fuch another exercife of wit , as was his who ...
... should plead for it . And truly I should have taken Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , as any other treatise , which would perfuade all men , that they are flaves , and ought to be fo , for fuch another exercife of wit , as was his who ...
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... should find nothing but a rope of fand , useful perhaps to fuch , whose skill and bufinefs it is to raise a duft , and would blind the people , the better to mislead them ; but in truth not of any force to draw those into bondage , who ...
... should find nothing but a rope of fand , useful perhaps to fuch , whose skill and bufinefs it is to raise a duft , and would blind the people , the better to mislead them ; but in truth not of any force to draw those into bondage , who ...
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Page 27 - 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 27 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 217 - And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting is thought his who pursues her during the chase. For being a beast that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession, whoever has employed so much labour...
Page 217 - It will perhaps be objected to this, that if gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, &c. makes a right to them, then any one may engross as much as he will. To which I answer, Not so. The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too. "God has given us all things richly,
Page 214 - The fruit or venison which nourishes the wild Indian, who knows no enclosure, and is still a tenant in common, must be his, and so his (ie a part of him) that another can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life.
Page 193 - Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, and all this only for the public good.
Page 197 - ... what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint. For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment.
Page 320 - Fourthly, the legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 384 - Every one is at the disposure of his own will when those who had by the delegation of the society the declaring of the public will are excluded from it, and others usurp the place who have no such authority or delegation.
Page 300 - I say that every man that hath any possession or enjoyment of any part of the dominions of any government doth thereby give his tacit consent, and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government during such enjoyment as any one under it...