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... society with Thebes . But at the same time , the Athenians coming to the succour of their confederates , whom they thought to have found at Mantinea , were very earnestly entreated by the citizens to rescue their goods and people from ...
... society with Thebes . But at the same time , the Athenians coming to the succour of their confederates , whom they thought to have found at Mantinea , were very earnestly entreated by the citizens to rescue their goods and people from ...
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... society of his friends and in the cultivation of his literary tastes ; and here in 1704 he died the peaceful death of the Christian philosopher , bless- ing God for a happy life in this world , and looking forward with sure and cer ...
... society of his friends and in the cultivation of his literary tastes ; and here in 1704 he died the peaceful death of the Christian philosopher , bless- ing God for a happy life in this world , and looking forward with sure and cer ...
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... SOCIETIES . Men being , as has been said , by nature all free , equal , and inde- pendent , no one can be put out of this estate , and subjected to the political power of another , without his own consent . TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT ...
... SOCIETIES . Men being , as has been said , by nature all free , equal , and inde- pendent , no one can be put out of this estate , and subjected to the political power of another , without his own consent . TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT ...
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... society , is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community , for their comfortable , safe , and ... society , to submit to the determination of the majority , and to be concluded by it ; or else this original compact ...
... society , is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community , for their comfortable , safe , and ... society , to submit to the determination of the majority , and to be concluded by it ; or else this original compact ...
Página 141
... society than he himself thought fit , and did actually consent to ? This would be still as great a liberty as he himself had before his compact , or any one else in the state of nature hath , who may submit himself , and consent to any ...
... society than he himself thought fit , and did actually consent to ? This would be still as great a liberty as he himself had before his compact , or any one else in the state of nature hath , who may submit himself , and consent to any ...
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Página 329 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...
Página 313 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south...
Página 329 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
Página 163 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 109 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 195 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 419 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 15 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Página 196 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands...
Página 35 - ... most properly do imitate to teach and delight; and, to imitate, borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be: but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.