The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 páginas |
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Página 137
... thousand men to go , under the pretence of loyalty , and massacre as of their peaceable neighbours . The gene- rality of men appear to be naturally endowed with sense enough to make laws , but then it is not every one who has virtue ...
... thousand men to go , under the pretence of loyalty , and massacre as of their peaceable neighbours . The gene- rality of men appear to be naturally endowed with sense enough to make laws , but then it is not every one who has virtue ...
Página 151
... thousand miserable wretches , corrupted by the habits , debased by the ignominy of a prison . If the creditor had a right to those carcases as a natural security , I am sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the ...
... thousand miserable wretches , corrupted by the habits , debased by the ignominy of a prison . If the creditor had a right to those carcases as a natural security , I am sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the ...
Página 152
... thousand again in jail . BURKE . Speech at Bristol , p , 21-25 . ། * THE Confinement of any debtor in the sloth and darkness of a prison , is a loss to the nation , and no gain to the creditor ; for , of the multi- tude who are pining ...
... thousand again in jail . BURKE . Speech at Bristol , p , 21-25 . ། * THE Confinement of any debtor in the sloth and darkness of a prison , is a loss to the nation , and no gain to the creditor ; for , of the multi- tude who are pining ...
Página 158
... thousand men armed with poisoned arrows to shoot you on the face and hands . Some of your servants were to have private orders to strew a poi- sonous juice on your shirts and sheets , which would soon make you tear your own flesh , and ...
... thousand men armed with poisoned arrows to shoot you on the face and hands . Some of your servants were to have private orders to strew a poi- sonous juice on your shirts and sheets , which would soon make you tear your own flesh , and ...
Página 161
... thousand of his majesty's subjects might in two or three days cut your flesh from your bones , take it away by cart loads , and bury it in distant parts to prevent infection , leaving the ske- leton as a monument of admiration to ...
... thousand of his majesty's subjects might in two or three days cut your flesh from your bones , take it away by cart loads , and bury it in distant parts to prevent infection , leaving the ske- leton as a monument of admiration to ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
arbitrary authority Big-endian blood BURKE called Cato's Letters civil corrupted court courtiers creatures cried crime crown death despotism destroy earth emperor empire enemy equal evil eyes father favour fear fellow flatterers fortune give Gulliver's Travels hand happy hath heart high treason honour human IDEM Jane Shore judge justice king kingdom labour laws liberty lives lord Louis XIV majesty mankind ment mind minister mischief misery monarch MONTESQUIEU murder nation nature never oath obliged officer opinion oppression passions Persian Letters persons Pisistratus pleasure political poor present pride prince Protesilaus punishment racters reason reign rich servants Shechem slavery slaves society soul spirit subjects suffer Tamerlane thee Themistocles thing thou thought thousand throne Tiberius tion titles Titus Oates truth tyranny tyrant uncle Toby unto virtue VOLTAIRE whole word wretch
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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,
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.