Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... Patriarch was King . Sir Robert Filmer wrote several political pieces that were published in the reign of Charles I. One of them boldly asserted that Parliament was an evil ; they all maintained extreme views of the irresponsibility of ...
... Patriarch was King . Sir Robert Filmer wrote several political pieces that were published in the reign of Charles I. One of them boldly asserted that Parliament was an evil ; they all maintained extreme views of the irresponsibility of ...
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... patriarchs had , by right of fatherhood , royal authority over their children . Nor dares Bellarmine deny this also . That the patriarchs ( saith he ) were endowed with kingly power , their deeds do testify ; for as Adam was lord of his ...
... patriarchs had , by right of fatherhood , royal authority over their children . Nor dares Bellarmine deny this also . That the patriarchs ( saith he ) were endowed with kingly power , their deeds do testify ; for as Adam was lord of his ...
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... patriarchs did enjoy , was as large and ample as the absolutest do- minion of any monarch which hath been since the ... patriarch doth in part prove . The three sons of Noah had the whole world di- vided amongst them by their father ...
... patriarchs did enjoy , was as large and ample as the absolutest do- minion of any monarch which hath been since the ... patriarch doth in part prove . The three sons of Noah had the whole world di- vided amongst them by their father ...
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... patriarchs did aptly belong unto them ; but after a few descents , when the true fatherhood itself was extinct , and only the right of the father descends to the true heir , then the title of prince or king was more significant , to ...
... patriarchs did aptly belong unto them ; but after a few descents , when the true fatherhood itself was extinct , and only the right of the father descends to the true heir , then the title of prince or king was more significant , to ...
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... patriarchs their power given them by their own children ? Bellarmine does not say it , but the contrary . If then , the fatherhood enjoyed this authority for so many ages by the law of nature , when was it lost , or when for- feited ...
... patriarchs their power given them by their own children ? Bellarmine does not say it , but the contrary . If then , the fatherhood enjoyed this authority for so many ages by the law of nature , when was it lost , or when for- feited ...
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