Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 849 pages "His Colloquies of Society (1829) is a calm exposition of his mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library" -ODNB. |
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... desires ; and these become a part of our punishment , or of our reward , according to their kind . Those persons , therefore , in whom the virtue of patriotism has predominated , continue to regard with interest their native land ...
... desires ; and these become a part of our punishment , or of our reward , according to their kind . Those persons , therefore , in whom the virtue of patriotism has predominated , continue to regard with interest their native land ...
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... desire , which , from its very benevolence , is the more likely to be delusive ... You are in a dilemma . MONTESINOS . Not so , Sir Thomas . Impossible as it may be for us to reconcile the free will of man with the foreknowledge of God ...
... desire , which , from its very benevolence , is the more likely to be delusive ... You are in a dilemma . MONTESINOS . Not so , Sir Thomas . Impossible as it may be for us to reconcile the free will of man with the foreknowledge of God ...
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... desire of motion would recur not less regularly than hunger and thirst , it is a theory which will not bear the test ; and this I know by experience . On a grey sober day , therefore , and in a tone of mind quite accordant with the ...
... desire of motion would recur not less regularly than hunger and thirst , it is a theory which will not bear the test ; and this I know by experience . On a grey sober day , therefore , and in a tone of mind quite accordant with the ...
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... desire of gain hardens the heart : the basest appetites have free scope there ; and the worst passions are under little restraint from law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this ...
... desire of gain hardens the heart : the basest appetites have free scope there ; and the worst passions are under little restraint from law , less from religion , and none from public opinion . SIR THOMAS MORE . You have omitted in this ...
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... desires of a few , who do waste as profusely as they do gather together unconscionably , and bring unto their posterity that woe which is pronounced to those that lay house to house and field to field , to dwell alone in the midst of ...
... desires of a few , who do waste as profusely as they do gather together unconscionably , and bring unto their posterity that woe which is pronounced to those that lay house to house and field to field , to dwell alone in the midst of ...
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