The Pamphleteer, Volume 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 - Great Britain |
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... authority can be circumscribed : these main- tain the perfect equality of mankind ; and their adversaries contend for the inborn right of hereditary command . From this conflict of opinions and claims , have arisen our civil discords ...
... authority can be circumscribed : these main- tain the perfect equality of mankind ; and their adversaries contend for the inborn right of hereditary command . From this conflict of opinions and claims , have arisen our civil discords ...
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... , they can commit no greater folly than to become the objects of fear ; for though the laws may be almost overpowered by the authority of an individual , and li- berty may be restricted by fear , they rouse themselves 10.
... , they can commit no greater folly than to become the objects of fear ; for though the laws may be almost overpowered by the authority of an individual , and li- berty may be restricted by fear , they rouse themselves 10.
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... authority is more cruelly felt , than all which it could accomplish , before it was sus- pended . " 3 We see , that the well - known clemency of Cæsar did not pre- vent Cicero from considering him as a tyrant , and approving of the ...
... authority is more cruelly felt , than all which it could accomplish , before it was sus- pended . " 3 We see , that the well - known clemency of Cæsar did not pre- vent Cicero from considering him as a tyrant , and approving of the ...
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... authority of a king over his people is compared to that of a father over his children , the metaphor is ingenious , but it is far from the truth . It represents what should be , but by no means what is practicable , and still less what ...
... authority of a king over his people is compared to that of a father over his children , the metaphor is ingenious , but it is far from the truth . It represents what should be , but by no means what is practicable , and still less what ...
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... authorities , or by experience ? The incompetence of reason , as I have already observed , is suffi- ciently proved by the excesses to which it impelled us . Nature has her moral as well as her physical laws , and they are alike ...
... authorities , or by experience ? The incompetence of reason , as I have already observed , is suffi- ciently proved by the excesses to which it impelled us . Nature has her moral as well as her physical laws , and they are alike ...
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Page 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Page 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Page 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Page 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Page 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Page 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Page 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Page 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...