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... authority ; and gave them distinctly to understand , that if they refused to do so , he himself would become the guardian of the poor , the father of the fatherless , the protector of the helpless orphan , the widow's God , and the ...
... authority ; and gave them distinctly to understand , that if they refused to do so , he himself would become the guardian of the poor , the father of the fatherless , the protector of the helpless orphan , the widow's God , and the ...
Page 70
... authority of the State . The time was , and that less than two hundred years ago , when by the laws of England , one hundred and forty - eight crimes were punishable with death . By the Mosaic code there were seven- teen . Let the ...
... authority of the State . The time was , and that less than two hundred years ago , when by the laws of England , one hundred and forty - eight crimes were punishable with death . By the Mosaic code there were seven- teen . Let the ...
Page 82
... authority . There are few profane historians , with the excep- tion of Herodotus and Thucydides , who give any account of the world earlier than Alexander , that can be relied upon . From that time downwards , the history of nations ...
... authority . There are few profane historians , with the excep- tion of Herodotus and Thucydides , who give any account of the world earlier than Alexander , that can be relied upon . From that time downwards , the history of nations ...
Page 83
... authority of the former was controlled . by established customs , and that of the latter by the senate , such was the character of imperial Greece and Rome . The republics of Greece and Rome were comparatively free ; though their ...
... authority of the former was controlled . by established customs , and that of the latter by the senate , such was the character of imperial Greece and Rome . The republics of Greece and Rome were comparatively free ; though their ...
Page 92
... authority of the British government , and con- tinued in defiance of all the remonstrances of our ancestors , whence is that equality of condition which is so indicative of liberty , so much more complete in Christian countries , than ...
... authority of the British government , and con- tinued in defiance of all the remonstrances of our ancestors , whence is that equality of condition which is so indicative of liberty , so much more complete in Christian countries , than ...
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