Two Treatises on Civil GovernmentG. Routledge and sons, limited, 1887 - 320 pages |
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... peace and to be taught the subject . Sir Robert Filmer was among Royalists of the time of Charles I. , who held that Hobbes had conceded too much when he based his theory of absolute sovereignty upon a social compact among men equal by ...
... peace and to be taught the subject . Sir Robert Filmer was among Royalists of the time of Charles I. , who held that Hobbes had conceded too much when he based his theory of absolute sovereignty upon a social compact among men equal by ...
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... peace , Abraham made a league with Abimelech , and ratified the articles with an oath . These acts of judging in capital crimes , of making war , and con- cluding peace , are the chiefest marks of sovereignty that are found in any ...
... peace , Abraham made a league with Abimelech , and ratified the articles with an oath . These acts of judging in capital crimes , of making war , and con- cluding peace , are the chiefest marks of sovereignty that are found in any ...
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... peace , his courts of justice , and all his acts of sovereignty , tend only to preserve and distribute to every subordinate and inferior father , and to their children , their rights and privileges , so that all the duties of a king are ...
... peace , his courts of justice , and all his acts of sovereignty , tend only to preserve and distribute to every subordinate and inferior father , and to their children , their rights and privileges , so that all the duties of a king are ...
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... peace and war , and the like , within their houses or families , he must give us leave , at least , to call them kings of their houses or families ; and if they be so by the law of Nature , what liberty will be left to their children to ...
... peace and war , and the like , within their houses or families , he must give us leave , at least , to call them kings of their houses or families ; and if they be so by the law of Nature , what liberty will be left to their children to ...
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... peace had been under Augustus . Even at those times when the Roman victories abroad did amaze the world , then the tragical slaughter of citizens at home deserved commiseration from their vanquished enemies . What though in that age of ...
... peace had been under Augustus . Even at those times when the Roman victories abroad did amaze the world , then the tragical slaughter of citizens at home deserved commiseration from their vanquished enemies . What though in that age of ...
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