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... reason ( 1. 1 , et passim ) . Commenting on these political maxims for a new society , Geffroy says : ' Milton was not a practical statesman , and his plans for a future social fabric were too often pure 1 See his own statement in Sec ...
... reason ( 1. 1 , et passim ) . Commenting on these political maxims for a new society , Geffroy says : ' Milton was not a practical statesman , and his plans for a future social fabric were too often pure 1 See his own statement in Sec ...
Page xvii
... reasons or not , whether he loved himself rather than truth , in thus turning upon his former party , as Doctor Johnson avers , it was not necessary for the author of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates to invent charges against the ...
... reasons or not , whether he loved himself rather than truth , in thus turning upon his former party , as Doctor Johnson avers , it was not necessary for the author of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates to invent charges against the ...
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... Reason , is a fitting introduction to our next topic , Milton's Use of Scripture . VII . USE OF SCRIPTURE . In the seventeenth century , Scripture and reason were the touchstones for Puritan arguments on nearly every subject . It was ...
... Reason , is a fitting introduction to our next topic , Milton's Use of Scripture . VII . USE OF SCRIPTURE . In the seventeenth century , Scripture and reason were the touchstones for Puritan arguments on nearly every subject . It was ...
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... reason , the divine right of kings - all these topics had engaged the argumentative powers of sixteenth century pam- phleteers . Certain great movements of thought had contributed to the furtherance of civil and religious liberty in ...
... reason , the divine right of kings - all these topics had engaged the argumentative powers of sixteenth century pam- phleteers . Certain great movements of thought had contributed to the furtherance of civil and religious liberty in ...
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... reason why one should have one jurisdiction rather than another . The whole community , then , is the im- mediate depositary of political power . But it cannot exercise it directly . It must delegate its power to a king or ruling body ...
... reason why one should have one jurisdiction rather than another . The whole community , then , is the im- mediate depositary of political power . But it cannot exercise it directly . It must delegate its power to a king or ruling body ...
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Page xxiii - ... (besides one, sometimes two or more of the best livings) collegiate masterships in the universities, rich lectures in the city, setting sail to all winds that might blow gain into their covetous bosoms...
Page 153 - And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain.
Page i - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 100 - But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer...
Page 78 - Whatsoever time, or the heedless hand of blind chance, hath drawn down from of old to this present in her huge drag-net, whether fish or sea-weed, shells or shrubs, unpicked, unchosen, those are the fathers.
Page xix - III. We shall with the same sincerity, reality, and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the Kingdoms...
Page 12 - It being thus manifest, that the power of kings and magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferred and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them, without a violation of their natural birthright...
Page 17 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 9 - And that they lived so, till from the root of Adam's transgression falling among themselves to do wrong and violence, and foreseeing that such courses must needs tend to the destruction of them all, they agreed by common league to bind each other from mutual injury, and jointly to defend themselves against any that gave disturbance or opposition to such agreement. Hence came cities, towns, and commonwealths.