The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
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... oppression , if he does not afford re- lief according to his abilities . If we could all be brought to practise the duty . of subjecting ourselves to each other , it would A 3 very very much contribute to the general happiness of ...
... oppression , if he does not afford re- lief according to his abilities . If we could all be brought to practise the duty . of subjecting ourselves to each other , it would A 3 very very much contribute to the general happiness of ...
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... - selves made up of atoms more precious than those which compose the bodies of the common people whom they oppress . Such has been the case in all 1 ages . ages . The progress of great monarchies is uni- form 12 EQUALITY OF MANKIND .
... - selves made up of atoms more precious than those which compose the bodies of the common people whom they oppress . Such has been the case in all 1 ages . ages . The progress of great monarchies is uni- form 12 EQUALITY OF MANKIND .
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... oppression . The fa- vourites of fortune , whom prosperity has benumbed , think that the miseries of the people are exagge rated , and that injustice is only mistake . KING OF PRUSSIA . Correspondence with Voltaire , let . 309 . THERE ...
... oppression . The fa- vourites of fortune , whom prosperity has benumbed , think that the miseries of the people are exagge rated , and that injustice is only mistake . KING OF PRUSSIA . Correspondence with Voltaire , let . 309 . THERE ...
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... oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury , than the respect due to the rank of the offender : and the reward this im- prudence procured him was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches , and all kinds of insult ...
... oppression in terms more suited to his sense of the injury , than the respect due to the rank of the offender : and the reward this im- prudence procured him was the additional injustice of blows and reproaches , and all kinds of insult ...
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... oppression of the rich . In fact , the laws are always useful to persons of fortune , and hurtful to those who are destitute . Whence it follows , that a state of society is advan- tageous to mankind in general , only when they all ...
... oppression of the rich . In fact , the laws are always useful to persons of fortune , and hurtful to those who are destitute . Whence it follows , that a state of society is advan- tageous to mankind in general , only when they all ...
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Page 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Page 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Page 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.