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... signs of respect in public or private meetings they shall give to one another . " All of the foregoing rights belong to the sovereign power . They are of the very essence of sovereignty . They are incommunicable and inseparable . " Thus ...
... signs of respect in public or private meetings they shall give to one another . " All of the foregoing rights belong to the sovereign power . They are of the very essence of sovereignty . They are incommunicable and inseparable . " Thus ...
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... signs , to have abandoned , or transferred . As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them , that assault him by force , to take away his life ; because he can- not be understood to aim thereby , at any good to himself ...
... signs , to have abandoned , or transferred . As first a man cannot lay down the right of resisting them , that assault him by force , to take away his life ; because he can- not be understood to aim thereby , at any good to himself ...
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... signs , is that we generally call " understanding " ; and is common to man and beast . For a dog by custom will understand the call , or the rating of his master ; and so will many other beasts . That understanding which is pecul- iar ...
... signs , is that we generally call " understanding " ; and is common to man and beast . For a dog by custom will understand the call , or the rating of his master ; and so will many other beasts . That understanding which is pecul- iar ...
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... at any time seen any sign , but in man only ; for this is a curiosity hardly incident to the nature of any living creature that has no other passion but sensual , such as are hunger , thirst , lust , and TRAIN OF IMAGINATIONS . 57.
... at any time seen any sign , but in man only ; for this is a curiosity hardly incident to the nature of any living creature that has no other passion but sensual , such as are hunger , thirst , lust , and TRAIN OF IMAGINATIONS . 57.
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... signs " to guess by . A " sign " is the evident antecedent of the consequent ; and contrarily , the consequent of the antecedent , when the like consequences have been observed before : and the oftener they have been observed , the less ...
... signs " to guess by . A " sign " is the evident antecedent of the consequent ; and contrarily , the consequent of the antecedent , when the like consequences have been observed before : and the oftener they have been observed , the less ...
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Page 140 - ... the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.
Page 356 - Then said they unto Him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God ? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He hath sent.
Page 175 - For the laws of nature, as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others as we would be done to, of themselves, without the terror of some power to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like. And covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
Page 140 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society...
Page 143 - The right of nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgment and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Page 141 - It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of war as this ; and I believe it was never generally so, over all the world, but there are many places where they live so now. For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families, the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust, have no government at all, and live at this day in that brutish manner, as I said before.
Page 353 - The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses* seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.
Page 143 - A Law of Nature (lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 173 - A multitude of men, are made one person, when they are by one man, or one person, represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that multitude in particular. For it is the unity of the representer, not the unity of the represented, that maketh the person one.
Page 30 - The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them; which, till laws be made, they cannot know: nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.