Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest and raising the value of money (Letter to a member of Parliament. 1691.) Short observations on a printed paper entitled, 'For encouraging the coining silver money in England' ... Further considerations concerning raising the value of money. Two treatises of governmentC. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... society . This it be- comes the wisdom of magistrates carefully to support , and render as sacred and awful , in the minds of the people , as they can . But , if ever frequency of oaths shall make them be looked on as formalities of law ...
... society . This it be- comes the wisdom of magistrates carefully to support , and render as sacred and awful , in the minds of the people , as they can . But , if ever frequency of oaths shall make them be looked on as formalities of law ...
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... society , unavoidable to some men ; but that also to receive profit from the loan of money , is as equitable and lawful , as receiving rent for land , and more tolerable to the bor - X rower , notwithstanding the opinion of some over ...
... society , unavoidable to some men ; but that also to receive profit from the loan of money , is as equitable and lawful , as receiving rent for land , and more tolerable to the bor - X rower , notwithstanding the opinion of some over ...
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... societies , introduced coinage , as a remedy to those two inconve- niencies . The stamp was a warrantry of the public , that , under such a denomination , they should receive a piece of such a weight , and such a fineness ; that is ...
... societies , introduced coinage , as a remedy to those two inconve- niencies . The stamp was a warrantry of the public , that , under such a denomination , they should receive a piece of such a weight , and such a fineness ; that is ...
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... society , to serve their present turn . § 4. However we must believe them upon their own bare words , when they tell us , " We are all born slaves , " and we must continue so ; " there is no remedy for it ; life and thraldom we entered ...
... society , to serve their present turn . § 4. However we must believe them upon their own bare words , when they tell us , " We are all born slaves , " and we must continue so ; " there is no remedy for it ; life and thraldom we entered ...
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... society . To prove this grand position of his , he tells us , p . 12 , " Men are born in subjection to their parents , " and therefore cannot be free . And this authority of parents he calls " royal authority , " p . 12 , 14 ...
... society . To prove this grand position of his , he tells us , p . 12 , " Men are born in subjection to their parents , " and therefore cannot be free . And this authority of parents he calls " royal authority , " p . 12 , 14 ...
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Page 295 - 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 226 - 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 335 - 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 364 - So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For ' in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
Page 293 - 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 228 - 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 345 - The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power; but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, according to the trust put in it.
Page 348 - 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 242 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 334 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.