Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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... society be made for the advantage of man , all the advantages for which it is made become his right . It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule . Men have a right to live by that rule ...
... society be made for the advantage of man , all the advantages for which it is made become his right . It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule . Men have a right to live by that rule ...
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... society , necessarily abandon all their proper natural rights , and thenceforth have only such as they derive from society . " As to the share of power , ' you say , p . 87 , " authority and direction , which each individual ought to ...
... society , necessarily abandon all their proper natural rights , and thenceforth have only such as they derive from society . " As to the share of power , ' you say , p . 87 , " authority and direction , which each individual ought to ...
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... society , retorts on the defender of establishments a more than equal contempt . He brands him as the slave of the most miserable , and narrow prejudices ; or , as the defender of the abuses of civil society , only because he profits by ...
... society , retorts on the defender of establishments a more than equal contempt . He brands him as the slave of the most miserable , and narrow prejudices ; or , as the defender of the abuses of civil society , only because he profits by ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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