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... time particularly recommended to the public attention . A N D because public
matters of a realm , that concern all and every man ' s life , wife , children , lands ,
goods , and whatsoever cannot be treated on by all men , but. whatsoever tion .
... time particularly recommended to the public attention . A N D because public
matters of a realm , that concern all and every man ' s life , wife , children , lands ,
goods , and whatsoever cannot be treated on by all men , but. whatsoever tion .
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tion . We may easily conceive what would have been the price of preferment ,
either in the church or state ; and that the laws themselves , wrested into an
universal engine of private oppreffion , would have resigned the lives and
property of ...
tion . We may easily conceive what would have been the price of preferment ,
either in the church or state ; and that the laws themselves , wrested into an
universal engine of private oppreffion , would have resigned the lives and
property of ...
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... and disband them ; and several times prepared bills to that purpose , which the
king always prevented by a proroga . tion ; but at last was prevailed upon to issue
forth a proclama - ' tion to recal them , yet at the same time supplied them with ...
... and disband them ; and several times prepared bills to that purpose , which the
king always prevented by a proroga . tion ; but at last was prevailed upon to issue
forth a proclama - ' tion to recal them , yet at the same time supplied them with ...
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Our disgraces and distresses in the Americani expèdi . tion ought to be a leffon
the best to rulers and ministers : broken we left the fruitlefs struggle to enflave that
quarter of the globe ; and the ministry were put out in disgrace . Hitherto the ...
Our disgraces and distresses in the Americani expèdi . tion ought to be a leffon
the best to rulers and ministers : broken we left the fruitlefs struggle to enflave that
quarter of the globe ; and the ministry were put out in disgrace . Hitherto the ...
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That his generosity might take a good and useful turn , hé writes him this short ,
but important epiftle . " What notion is this , says he that you have got in your head
? Can you imagine the fidelity and affe & tion of the subject are to be acquired by
...
That his generosity might take a good and useful turn , hé writes him this short ,
but important epiftle . " What notion is this , says he that you have got in your head
? Can you imagine the fidelity and affe & tion of the subject are to be acquired by
...
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Page 5 - That liberty, or freedom, consists in having an actual share in the appointment of those who frame the laws, and who are to be the guardians of every man's life, property, and peace; for the all of one man is as dear to him as the all of another; and the poor man has an equal right, but more need, to have representatives in the legislature than the rich one.
Page 3 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Page 8 - In short, whoever considers what it is that constitutes the moving principle of what we call great affairs, and the invincible sensibility of man to the opinion of his fellow-creatures, will not hesitate to affirm that, if it were possible for the liberty of the press to exist in a despotic government, and (what is not less difficult) for it to exist without changing the constitution, this liberty of the press...
Page 9 - Some have taken it as a means of deposing a person on whom they had conferred a tyrannical authority; others for the power of choosing a superior whom they are obliged to obey; others for the right of bearing arms, and of being thereby enabled to use violence; others, in fine, for the privilege of being governed by a native of their own country, or by their own laws.
Page 5 - Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 10 - In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Page 10 - We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.
Page 10 - ... from monarchies. In fine, as in democracies the people seem to act almost as they please, this sort of government has been deemed the most free, and the power of the people has been confounded with their liberty.
Page 10 - Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Page 11 - Marseilles; public tranquillity, that of the laws of China; navigation, that of the laws of Rhodes; natural liberty, that of the policy of the Savages; in general, the pleasures of the prince, that of despotic states; that of monarchies, the prince's and the kingdom's glory; the independence of individuals is the end aimed at by the laws of Poland, thence results the oppression of the whole.