 I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...  The Works of Lord Morley - Page 208by John Morley - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Sharp - History - 1998 - 266 pages
...as military Levellers in October 1647, was told by Colonel Thomas Rainborough: really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under... | |
 | Thomas A. Spragens - Philosophy - 1999 - 300 pages
...Rainborough in the Putney debates, the lesson was equally clearly set forth: "For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under... | |
 | Angus Stroud - History - 1999 - 246 pages
...would be? Would it not be confusion? Would it not be utter confusion? (Cromwell) I really think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore ... I think that it's clear that every man that is to live under a government... | |
 | Alan Levine - Political Science - 1999 - 294 pages
...debate the Agreement. In a heated exchange over the franchise, Thomas Rainborough's riveting claim that "the poorest he that is in England, hath a life to live, as the greatest he" was pitted against Henry Ireton's no less commanding assertion that only those with... | |
 | David Sharp - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...birthrights and privileges as Englishmen.' Rainborough's appeal was clear: 'For I really think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he ... I think it is clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first,... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - History - 2000 - 564 pages
...that have not lost their birthright should have an equal voice in elections' to Rainsborough's famous 'the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he'.50 In a debate called to restore army unity, Ireton achieved the objective of destroying... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - Capitalism - 2000 - 458 pages
...Revolution can no longer be denied. The Divarication of the Putney Debates For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under... | |
 | Roger W. Wilkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 188 pages
...Seminas: The Aspen Institute Readings, Vol. z (Aspen, Colo.: Aspen Institute, 1997), 55. 28 "I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he": Ibid., 59. 29 Tlie wriringr of many teventcenth- and eariy-eighteenth-century theorists... | |
 | N. H. Keeble - History - 2001 - 322 pages
...are passages of fine eloquence, undercut by opposing voices, as in: RAINSBOROUGH8: ... I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under... | |
 | Elizabeth Potter - Science - 2001 - 230 pages
...elections." In support of this claim, Colonel Rainsborough, speaking for the radicals, declared that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore, truly, Sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under... | |
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