Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - 401 من الصفحات |
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... receive the approbation of the best of men , I shall not be much troubled by the scoffs aud reproaches of the worst : I have not written for fame , and therefore , C cannot be disappointed . And whatever may be the fate PREFACE . 13 one ...
... receive the approbation of the best of men , I shall not be much troubled by the scoffs aud reproaches of the worst : I have not written for fame , and therefore , C cannot be disappointed . And whatever may be the fate PREFACE . 13 one ...
الصفحة 76
... receive what they deny'd to all ; Then , notwithstanding all the wrongs they do , All men will find a sure salvation too . But nature , speaking , says it can't be so ; Man can't do wrong , and yet unpunish'd go . If man be fix'd ...
... receive what they deny'd to all ; Then , notwithstanding all the wrongs they do , All men will find a sure salvation too . But nature , speaking , says it can't be so ; Man can't do wrong , and yet unpunish'd go . If man be fix'd ...
الصفحة 107
... the duties in the charge he makes , And from the buyer usual profit takes . The poor must buy ; and hence the poor must pay ; The cheats receive , and for their portions play . These gamesters play to get their share of stakes , ( 107 )
... the duties in the charge he makes , And from the buyer usual profit takes . The poor must buy ; and hence the poor must pay ; The cheats receive , and for their portions play . These gamesters play to get their share of stakes , ( 107 )
الصفحة 110
... will gain , whose toil improves the earth . In states where work does not receive its pay , Thus might the needy to the wealthy say : If half your lives a competence amass'd , And we should work as long as life shall last ( 110 )
... will gain , whose toil improves the earth . In states where work does not receive its pay , Thus might the needy to the wealthy say : If half your lives a competence amass'd , And we should work as long as life shall last ( 110 )
الصفحة 111
... receives a more than equal share , One partner then is surely left unpaid , And thus by him the other's wealth is made . The case is clear where two or three combine ; And quite as plain where men in nations join : Because the reason ...
... receives a more than equal share , One partner then is surely left unpaid , And thus by him the other's wealth is made . The case is clear where two or three combine ; And quite as plain where men in nations join : Because the reason ...
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الصفحة 3 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 311 - Cat/iolicce, and against Luther, who had just begun the Reformation in Germany, upon which the pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith, a title still retained by the monarcbs of Great Britain: the bull conferring it bears date Oct.
الصفحة 194 - Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was...
الصفحة 193 - King to the bar, it had been treason in them ; and as to the part he had in the action with which he was charged, he was so far from repenting what he had done, that he was most ready to seal it with his blood...
الصفحة 210 - On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with...
الصفحة 273 - He applied the golden rule of " doing to others as he would that others should do unto him," which for the present put an end to the discussion.
الصفحة 245 - ... the Diversions of Purley," first published in octavo in 1786. The work was afterwards enlarged into two volumes quarto, but never completed. In the introduction, the author, with reference to his own political opinions, has humorously alluded to Purley having been once the seat of Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice at the trial of Charles I. Respecting the contents of this work, the critical " doctors " of the time did decidedly differ, and a tractable but weak-minded reader must...
الصفحة 193 - ... their detestation of such usage. At the place of execution, among other things, he declared that he had used the utmost of his endeavours that the practice of the law might be regulated, and that the...
الصفحة 188 - ... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants of Rome...