A Plea for LibertyThomas Mackay J. Murray, 1891 - 414 pages |
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Page 70 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 22 - Individuals who maintain their rights to make their own contracts are vilified as "blacklegs" and "traitors," and meet with violence which would be merciless were there no legal penalties and no police. Along with this trampling on the liberties of men of their own class, there goes peremptory dictation to the employing class : not prescribed terms and working arrangements only shall be conformed to, but none save those belonging to their body shall be employed — nay, in some cases, there shall...
Page ii - Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of a commonwealth; but here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Page ii - Suppose we could expel sin by this means ; look how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue ; for the matter of them both is the same : remove that, and ye remove them both alike.
Page 13 - Assumption that all concerned will judge rightly and act fairly—will think as they ought to think, and act as they ought to act; and he assumes this regardless of the daily experiences which show him that men do neither the one nor the other, and forgetting that the complaints he makes against the existing system show his belief to be that men have neither the wisdom nor the rectitude which his plan requires them to have. Paper constitutions raise smiles on the faces of those who have observed...
Page 102 - ... in a fair, open, and regular manner, should not be afterwards put to difficulties by reason of the previous knavery of the seller.
Page 362 - Act confirming such provisional order, or of such special Act, and within six months after the expiration of every subsequent period of seven years, or such shorter...
Page 77 - ... nets, harepipes, nor cords, nor other engines for to take or destroy deer, hares, nor conies, nor other gentlemen's game, upon pain of one year's imprisonment...
Page 307 - London and another was not originally one of the objects of the Post Office. But, in the reign of Charles the Second, an enterprising citizen of London, William Dockwray, set up, at great expense, a penny post...
Page 308 - ... and the above penalties shall be incurred whether the letter shall be sent singly or with anything else, or such incidental service shall be performed in respect to a letter either sent or to be sent singly, or together with some other letter or thing ; and in any...