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Page 34
... secure . If it levels distinctions among men , it levels upward , not downward ; it elevates the low , elevates them in mind and in conduct ; and so far as it brings down the high , it brings down 34 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... secure . If it levels distinctions among men , it levels upward , not downward ; it elevates the low , elevates them in mind and in conduct ; and so far as it brings down the high , it brings down 34 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
Page 51
... secure it when obtained . The gloom of the picture was increased by the downward tendency of things from age to age ; every change being only from bad to worse ; and this change affecting rulers as well as ruled , mak- ing the one more ...
... secure it when obtained . The gloom of the picture was increased by the downward tendency of things from age to age ; every change being only from bad to worse ; and this change affecting rulers as well as ruled , mak- ing the one more ...
Page 52
... once , and showing themselves possessed of laws which secured to them every blessing of civil freedom , which so combined the various powers of the state as equally to secure the rights of the weak and the strong , the 52 SECOND LECTURE .
... once , and showing themselves possessed of laws which secured to them every blessing of civil freedom , which so combined the various powers of the state as equally to secure the rights of the weak and the strong , the 52 SECOND LECTURE .
Page 64
... secure the parties against that ruinous evil , " the law's delay . " " Judges and officers shalt thou make the " wise men , " who alone were competent to act in cases of such judicial delicacy and importance . " The Tabernacle of the ...
... secure the parties against that ruinous evil , " the law's delay . " " Judges and officers shalt thou make the " wise men , " who alone were competent to act in cases of such judicial delicacy and importance . " The Tabernacle of the ...
Page 77
... secure the rights of the people from violation . Perhaps no one ever exceeded Milton in his relish for all that belongs to the wisdom and refinement of Greece and Rome ; and yet , when he speaks of their wise men , as legislators , he ...
... secure the rights of the people from violation . Perhaps no one ever exceeded Milton in his relish for all that belongs to the wisdom and refinement of Greece and Rome ; and yet , when he speaks of their wise men , as legislators , he ...
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