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 | Benjamin Godwin - Enslaved persons - 1830 - 198 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or controul, unless by the law of nature : being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...when he endued him with the faculty of free will. Uut every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any constraint or control, unless by the law of nature, being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free-will. But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 404 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any constraint or control, unless by the laws of nature, being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...when he endued him with the faculty of free will." Notwithstanding the little inaccuracy to be found in this passage, in making liberty to consist in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1833 - 760 pages
...power of acting as oue thinks fit, without any restraint or coutrol, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of Ireewill." In many of the remarks which le (Lord Suffield) had heard on this subject, it was evident... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of freewill. But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...thinks fit, without any restraint or dontrol, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when ho endued him with the faculty of freewill. But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 996 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...his creation, when he endued him with the faculty of free-will." In many of the remarks which I have heard on this subject, it is evident that the speeches... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 414 pages
...thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature ; being a right inherent by birth, and one of the gifts of God to man at his creation, when he endued htm with the faculty of freewill. But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature ; vߟB endowed him with the faculty of free will. 1 Comm, e. 1. LIBERTY. This species of legal obedience and... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 pages
...England. Oxford edition, 1765, vol. ip 125. t Paley's Moral Philosophy, book ii. chap. 10. nature: being a right inherent in us by birth, and one of...faculty of free will. But every man, when he enters into society, gives up a part of his natural liberty, as the price of so valuable a purchase; and,... | |
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