| Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...are anfwerable for them to our ff God. " The legitimate powers of government extend *' to fuch atts only as are injurious to others. But ** it does me no injury for my neighbour to fay, *' there are twenty gods, or no god :— It neither *' picks my pocket, nor breaks... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...fubmit them; he is anfweiable for them to God, Tho legitimate powers of government extend to fuch a£fo only as. are injurious to others; but it does me no injury for my neighbour to fay there ^re twenty gods, or no god ; it neither pick* my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...fubmit. We are aniwerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to fuch acts only as are .injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to fay ihere are twenty .Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be faid,... | |
| John Mitchell MASON (D.D.) - Lord's Supper - 1803 - 336 pages
...preach it. " The legitimate powers of " government," they are his own words, " ex" tend to such acts only as are injurious to '•' others. But it does me no injury for my " neighbours to say there are twenty Gods or " no God. It neither picks my pocket nor " breaks my leg... | |
| James Cheetham - Political scientists - 1817 - 212 pages
...such acts only as are injurious to others^ But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say [that] there are twenty Gods or no God (#) It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. (A) Mr. Jefferson admits, that the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious... | |
| Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 474 pages
...in France and England, but also in America. The doctrine of" It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks uny pocket nor breaks my leg," was not peculiar to our illustrious author ; it had prevailed in France... | |
| William Newnham Blane - Canada - 1824 - 530 pages
...submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of Government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others ; but it does me no injury for my neighbour to say, there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.... | |
| English literature - 1787 - 564 pages
...extend to fuch acts only at arc injurious to others. But it docs me no injury for my neighbour to fay there are twenty Gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my lep. IF it be laid, his teftirnony in a court of jufHce cannot be relied on, reject it then, and let... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God.' It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
| Henry Bennet Brewster - Liberalism (Religion). - 1833 - 204 pages
...submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.— But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If... | |
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