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Page 74 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 13 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them.
Page 52 - And though all the fruits it naturally produces and beasts it feeds belong to mankind in common, as they are produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, and nobody has originally a private dominion exclusive of the rest of mankind in any of them as they are thus in their natural state...
Page 1 - Israel's claim to the land were written on his memory and in his heart as with a pen of iron and the point of a diamond...
Page 13 - ... distinct from the Government set up.) And if so, that a People may erect and establish what forme of Government seemes to them most meete for their civill condition: It is evident that such Governments as are by them erected and established, have no more power, nor for no longer time, then the civill power or people consenting and agreeing shall betrust them with.
Page 52 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person; [. . .] The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 15 - OP whom Sovereignty is conferred, engage to take care of the Common Peace and Welfare. And the Subjects on the other hand, to yield them faithful Obedience.
Page 159 - ... most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one congregation or church under the Lord Jesus Christ our head...
Page 35 - How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 162 - For God, having given man an understanding to direct his actions, has allowed him a freedom of will and liberty of acting as properly belonging thereunto, within the bounds of that law he is under.