Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 2W. Creech, 1807 |
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 2 Henry Home (lord Kames.),Lord Henry Home Kames Affichage du livre entier - 1807 |
Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 2 Henry Home (lord Kames.),Lord Henry Home Kames Affichage du livre entier - 1807 |
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Page 122 - ... toujours être. Ce fut uniquement la grandeur de la république qui fit le mal et qui changea en guerres civiles les tumultes populaires. Il...
Page 163 - ... for if any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government. For what property have I in that which another may by right take when he pleases to himself?
Page 53 - Qu'elle soit dans le silence! qu'à votre voix la discorde et la guerre cessent de faire retentir leurs clameurs orgueilleuses! Dieu de bonté! auteur de tous les êtres, vos regards paternels...
Page 112 - you kill me in refuting this fmall fum : take it only as a " mark of your friendfhip to my family." '' Well," faid he, " fmce it will oblige you, I take the money ; but •' give me the fatisfaction of bidding adieu to your amiable
Page 115 - I immediately repaired to him; and he had ftill fenfe enough to know me. He then faid, " And is he dead ?" " Who, my dear ? "
Page 458 - Philosopher, that he should say, that those logs were happy that were made images to be worshipped; for their fellows, as good as they, lay for blocks behind the fire: so if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, Stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always; and to others of like quality, Get you hence, be banished for ever; we might be taxed peradventure with St. James's words, namely, To be partial in ourselves, and judges of evil thoughts.
Page 122 - Demander dans un État libre des gens hardis dans la guerre et timides dans la paix, c'est vouloir des choses impossibles ; et, pour règle générale, toutes les fois qu'on verra tout le monde tranquille dans un État qui se donne le nom de République, on peut être assuré que la liberté n'y est pas.
Page 288 - ... so little to the real advantage of the other : for while a million yearly is raised among the former many of the latter are starved; many more languish in want and misery; of the rest numbers are found begging or pilfering in the streets to-day, and to-morrow are locked up in gaols and bridewells.
Page 112 - The two young ladies, brought from their hiding-place, were prefented to him ; and the family, thus reunited, beftow'd their whole attention on their deliverer. A dangerous wound he had receive'd gave them opportunity to...
Page 112 - They came to him with looks of regard and affection. " Ladies," faid he, " the impreffion you have " made on my heart, will never wear out. What return to " make I know not ; for men of my...