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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... reason and in conscience to submit to them and acknowledge my conviction ac- cordingly ... Of the wrongs and sufferings of the Irish people , ( which is altogether a different question , ) of the condition to which their landlords ...
... reason and in conscience to submit to them and acknowledge my conviction ac- cordingly ... Of the wrongs and sufferings of the Irish people , ( which is altogether a different question , ) of the condition to which their landlords ...
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... reason , and during the last hundred and fifty years , men have been reasoning themselves out of every thing that they ought to believe and feel . Among a certain miserable class who are more numerous than is commonly supposed , he who ...
... reason , and during the last hundred and fifty years , men have been reasoning themselves out of every thing that they ought to believe and feel . Among a certain miserable class who are more numerous than is commonly supposed , he who ...
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... reason , and possess a firm and assured faith , feel that I have in this opinion a strong hold , .. I cannot but perceive that they who have endeavoured to dispossess the people of their old instinctive belief in such things , have done ...
... reason , and possess a firm and assured faith , feel that I have in this opinion a strong hold , .. I cannot but perceive that they who have endeavoured to dispossess the people of their old instinctive belief in such things , have done ...
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... , and wherefore are you come ? Be not alarmed , he replied . Your reason , which has shown you the possibility of such an appearance as you now witness , must have con- vinced you also that it would never be permit- ted 14 INTRODUCTION .
... , and wherefore are you come ? Be not alarmed , he replied . Your reason , which has shown you the possibility of such an appearance as you now witness , must have con- vinced you also that it would never be permit- ted 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... uncertain as to you ; except , only , that having a clearer and more comprehensive knowledge of the past , we are enabled to reason better from causes to VOL . I. C consequences , and by what has been , to judge INTRODUCTION . 17.
... uncertain as to you ; except , only , that having a clearer and more comprehensive knowledge of the past , we are enabled to reason better from causes to VOL . I. C consequences , and by what has been , to judge INTRODUCTION . 17.
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