The Genuine Trial of Thomas Paine, for a Libel Contained in the Second Part of Rights of Man: At Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, Before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury : Together with the Speeches at Large of the Attorney-general and Mr. Erskine, and Authentic Copies of Mr. Paine's Letters to the Attorney-general and Others, on the Subject of the Prosecution |
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Página 105 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, A.nd clap your padlock on the mind.
Página 68 - No usage, law, or authority whatever, is so binding, that it need or ought to be continued, when it may be changed with advantage to the community. The family of the prince, the . order of succession, the prerogative of the crown, the form and parts of the legislature, together with the respective powers, office, duration, and mutual dependency, of the several parts, are all only so many laws, mutable like other laws, whenever expediency requires, either by the ordinary...
Página 6 - All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.
Página 54 - When a nation changes its opinion and habits of thinking, it is no longer to be governed as before ; but it would not only be wrong, but bad policy, to attempt by force what ought to be accomplished by reason. Rebellion consists in forcibly opposing the general will of a nation, whether by a party or by a government.
Página 15 - Mary have always appeared to me detestable; the one seeking to destroy his uncle, and the other her father, to get possession of power themselves; yet, as the nation was disposed to think something of that event, I felt hurt at seeing it ascribe the whole reputation of it to a man who had undertaken it as a job, and who, besides what he otherwise got, charged six hundred thousand pounds for the expense of the little fleet that brought him from Holland.
Página 51 - It would be an act of despotism, or what in England is called arbitrary power, to make a law to prohibit investigating the principles, good or bad, on which such a law, or any other, is founded.
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| Título | The Genuine Trial of Thomas Paine, for a Libel Contained in the Second Part of Rights of Man: At Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, Before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury : Together with the Speeches at Large of the Attorney-general and Mr. Erskine, and Authentic Copies of Mr. Paine's Letters to ... |
| Autores | Thomas Paine, Edward Hodgson |
| Colaborador | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench |
| Editor | J.S. Jordan, 1792 |
| Largo | 114 páginas |
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