This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...subjecting them necessarily and univerfally to the will of one man; and fays not a word that is not applicable to every nation in the world, as well as to our own. But as the bitterness of his malice seems to be most especially directed against: England, I am inclined to believe he hurts other countries only ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...subjecting them necessarily and univerfally to the will of one man; and fays not a word that is not applicable to every nation in the world, as well as to our own. But as the bitterness of his malice seems to be most especially directed against: England, I am inclined to believe he hurts other countries only by accident, as the famous French lady intended only to poison her father, husband, brother, and some more of her nearest relations; but rather than they should escape, destroyed many other persons of quality, who, at several times dined with them: and if that ought to excuse her, I am content he also should pass uncensured, though his crimes are incomparably greater than those for which she was condemned, or than any can be which are not of a public extent. Sect. V. To depend upon the will of a man is slavery. THIS, as he thinks, is farther sweetened, by asserting, that he doth not inquire what the rights of a people are, The Marchioness of Brinrillicrs. but from whence; not considering, that whilst he denies, they can proceed from the laws of natural liberty, or any other root than the grace and bounty of the prince, he declares they can have none at all. For as liberty solely consists in an independency upon the will of another; and By the name of stave We understand a man, who can neither dispose of his person nor goods, but enjoys all at the will of his master: there is no such thing in nature as a (lave, if those men or nations are not slaves, who have no other title to what they enjoy, than the grace of the prince, which he may revoke whensoever he pleaseth. But there is more than ordinary extravagance in his assertion, that " the greatest liberty in the world is for a "people to live under a monarch," when his whole...
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