Two Treatises on Civil Government: Preceded by Sir Robert FilmerGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1884 - 318 pages |
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... common consent all to be ordered by some whom they should agree upon ; without which consent there was no reason that one man should take upon him to be lord or judge over another . So that , in a word , all public rule , of what kind ...
... common consent all to be ordered by some whom they should agree upon ; without which consent there was no reason that one man should take upon him to be lord or judge over another . So that , in a word , all public rule , of what kind ...
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... Common- wealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . " The State was a great body politic , as Leviathan was a great body natural , and the body politic , like the body natural , could be well ruled only when all members were subject to the ...
... Common- wealth , Ecclesiastical and Civil . " The State was a great body politic , as Leviathan was a great body natural , and the body politic , like the body natural , could be well ruled only when all members were subject to the ...
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... common opinion maintained , as well by divines as by divers other learned men , which affirms , - " Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please ...
... common opinion maintained , as well by divines as by divers other learned men , which affirms , - " Mankind is naturally endowed and born with freedom from all subjection , and at liberty to choose what form of government it please ...
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... common distinction which refers only power universal and absolute to God , but power respective in regard of the special form of government to the choice of the people . 66 This lordship which Adam by command had over the whole world ...
... common distinction which refers only power universal and absolute to God , but power respective in regard of the special form of government to the choice of the people . 66 This lordship which Adam by command had over the whole world ...
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... common pannier . And Epimenides the Cretian terms a family homocapnoi , those that sit by a common fire or smoke . But let Suarez understand what he please by Adam's family , if he will but confess , as he needs must , that Adam and the ...
... common pannier . And Epimenides the Cretian terms a family homocapnoi , those that sit by a common fire or smoke . But let Suarez understand what he please by Adam's family , if he will but confess , as he needs must , that Adam and the ...
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Page 38 - And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin ; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life...
Page 93 - 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 158 - 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 156 - 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 96 - 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 158 - And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 204 - labour" being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
Page 49 - ... 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 207 - God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit, and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour was to be his title to it) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.
Page 17 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations : and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.