The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
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... misery the prejudice attached to his birth ? Is there any thing more vile and contemptible , than a rich man become poor , sensible of the disgrace of poverty , and reduced to the lowest of the human species ? The one hath no other ...
... misery the prejudice attached to his birth ? Is there any thing more vile and contemptible , than a rich man become poor , sensible of the disgrace of poverty , and reduced to the lowest of the human species ? The one hath no other ...
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... misery , wandering from court to court in search of relief , and meeting on every side with nothing but mockery and insult , and all for want of knowing how to exercise any other employment than that R 4 in in which he had been educated ...
... misery , wandering from court to court in search of relief , and meeting on every side with nothing but mockery and insult , and all for want of knowing how to exercise any other employment than that R 4 in in which he had been educated ...
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... misery , and favour the oppression of the rich . In fact , the laws are always useful to persons of fortune , and hurtful to those who are destitute . Whence it follows , that a state of society is advan- tageous to mankind in general ...
... misery , and favour the oppression of the rich . In fact , the laws are always useful to persons of fortune , and hurtful to those who are destitute . Whence it follows , that a state of society is advan- tageous to mankind in general ...
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... misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then cast it down -shook his head , and went on with his work , of affliction . I heard his chains upon his legs , as he ...
... misery to add to the heap . As I darkened the little light he had , he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door , then cast it down -shook his head , and went on with his work , of affliction . I heard his chains upon his legs , as he ...
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... misery : -that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed , fed or starved , deceived or instructed , protected or destroyed . GORDON . Cato's Letters , vol . ii . No 38 . WHEN the affairs of a nation are ...
... misery : -that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed , fed or starved , deceived or instructed , protected or destroyed . GORDON . Cato's Letters , vol . ii . No 38 . WHEN the affairs of a nation are ...
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