The Evolution of Modern LibertyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 284 من الصفحات |
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... Reforms of the French Revolution . Views of the Con- stitutent Assembly Regarding the Importance of the Declaration : Bailly , Condorcet , Rabaut de Saint Étienne . Burke's Attack upon the Declaration . Taine's View . Investigation of ...
... Reforms of the French Revolution . Views of the Con- stitutent Assembly Regarding the Importance of the Declaration : Bailly , Condorcet , Rabaut de Saint Étienne . Burke's Attack upon the Declaration . Taine's View . Investigation of ...
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... reforms and a greater extension of individual liberty . This century is marked by the abolition of slavery in all civilized countries , by the extension of the elective franchise , by the emancipation of woman , by the popularization of ...
... reforms and a greater extension of individual liberty . This century is marked by the abolition of slavery in all civilized countries , by the extension of the elective franchise , by the emancipation of woman , by the popularization of ...
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... reforming . He was ani- mated by the noblest motives of justice , equity , and love of humanity . But Joseph's great weakness was his lack of reverence for historical development . He 1 See Treitschke , Das politsche Königtum des Anti ...
... reforming . He was ani- mated by the noblest motives of justice , equity , and love of humanity . But Joseph's great weakness was his lack of reverence for historical development . He 1 See Treitschke , Das politsche Königtum des Anti ...
الصفحة 67
... reforms , Joseph deserves honor and credit for his noble spirit and his devotion to the wel- fare of his subjects . The representative philosopher of the eighteenth century was Christian von Wolff , the famous professor at Halle , who ...
... reforms , Joseph deserves honor and credit for his noble spirit and his devotion to the wel- fare of his subjects . The representative philosopher of the eighteenth century was Christian von Wolff , the famous professor at Halle , who ...
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... reforming sovereigns as Louis XIV . , Frederick II . , and Catherine II . of Russia . He cared very little for the English system of self - government . As Sorel says : " He expected everything from the State , and , at bottom , worked ...
... reforming sovereigns as Louis XIV . , Frederick II . , and Catherine II . of Russia . He cared very little for the English system of self - government . As Sorel says : " He expected everything from the State , and , at bottom , worked ...
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الصفحة 188 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
الصفحة 243 - Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the State ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
الصفحة 180 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
الصفحة 157 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
الصفحة 168 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
الصفحة 137 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
الصفحة 189 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of indi[viduals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people cove'nants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
الصفحة 244 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians in hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution and renovate their father's life.
الصفحة 127 - England in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and " representing the People, have the supreme power in this
الصفحة 49 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...