Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - Počet stran: 401 |
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Strana 3
... the most unexampled prosperity , and " witnessed the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated , where reason is left free to combat it . " After so many heart saddening instances of the infa- mous DEDICATION .
... the most unexampled prosperity , and " witnessed the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated , where reason is left free to combat it . " After so many heart saddening instances of the infa- mous DEDICATION .
Strana 4
... instances of the infa- mous and cruel success of monarchs ; and amidst so many shocking examples of political turpitude and apostacy , it it peculiarly grateful to the mind , to behold , in this happy country , wisdom triumphing over ...
... instances of the infa- mous and cruel success of monarchs ; and amidst so many shocking examples of political turpitude and apostacy , it it peculiarly grateful to the mind , to behold , in this happy country , wisdom triumphing over ...
Strana 18
... to do one act as another . In that case there is nothing submitted to the choice of a rational creature ; and this act is like all others , on a perfect equality . Consequently no one can condemn me , in this instance 18 PREFACE .
... to do one act as another . In that case there is nothing submitted to the choice of a rational creature ; and this act is like all others , on a perfect equality . Consequently no one can condemn me , in this instance 18 PREFACE .
Strana 19
... instance , without condemning himself : for if we have any pow- er to influence the world , I am right , and he who cen- sures me is wrong : but if we have no power to alter the condition of life , we are mere machines ; and if I act ...
... instance , without condemning himself : for if we have any pow- er to influence the world , I am right , and he who cen- sures me is wrong : but if we have no power to alter the condition of life , we are mere machines ; and if I act ...
Strana 85
... instance can be shown or found , Where racks have caus'd a single death or wound . But both shall cease , and man , though now oppress'd Shall find in future , freedom , peace and rest . I PART II . To know what monsters pow'r would ...
... instance can be shown or found , Where racks have caus'd a single death or wound . But both shall cease , and man , though now oppress'd Shall find in future , freedom , peace and rest . I PART II . To know what monsters pow'r would ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...