The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone: Containing Her Correspondence with Mr. Richardson; a Series of Letters to Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, and Some Fugitive Pieces, Never Before Published. Together with an Account of Her Life and Character, Drawn Up by Her Own Family..John Murray, ... and A. Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1807 |
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Página 43
... restrain , but " to preserve and enlarge freedom ; for in all the states of created beings capable of laws , " where there is no law there is no freedom . " For liberty , is , to be free from restraint " and violence from others , which ...
... restrain , but " to preserve and enlarge freedom ; for in all the states of created beings capable of laws , " where there is no law there is no freedom . " For liberty , is , to be free from restraint " and violence from others , which ...
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... restrain her from embracing a serpent ; paint , I beseech you , the lovely , the wise , the noble , the good Cla- rissa , not in leading - strings , but in chains ; ( for tyranny is the triumph of low minds , and almost the sure ...
... restrain her from embracing a serpent ; paint , I beseech you , the lovely , the wise , the noble , the good Cla- rissa , not in leading - strings , but in chains ; ( for tyranny is the triumph of low minds , and almost the sure ...
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... restrained from breaking out into any act , that may ever injure , disgrace , or disturb the happiness of those to whom they owe life . But I find myself got into the supplement before I have answered the letter ; yet before I leave the ...
... restrained from breaking out into any act , that may ever injure , disgrace , or disturb the happiness of those to whom they owe life . But I find myself got into the supplement before I have answered the letter ; yet before I leave the ...
Página 151
... subjection as must check and restrain that unbounded confidence and frank- ness which are the essence of friendship , be laid aside or suffered to sleep , till such time as the woman shall shew herself unworthy of the high title 151.
... subjection as must check and restrain that unbounded confidence and frank- ness which are the essence of friendship , be laid aside or suffered to sleep , till such time as the woman shall shew herself unworthy of the high title 151.
Página 153
... restrained by some other principle . Let not the husband then restrain these amiable effects of love , by an over- weaning opinion of superiority , or jealousy of power , nor the wife , by false dignity , or fe- ^ male pride ; but let ...
... restrained by some other principle . Let not the husband then restrain these amiable effects of love , by an over- weaning opinion of superiority , or jealousy of power , nor the wife , by false dignity , or fe- ^ male pride ; but let ...
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Página 92 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Página 74 - I require and charge you both (as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed) that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it ; for be ye well assured that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawful.
Página 43 - When he has acquired that state, he is presumed to know how far that law is to be his guide...
Página 44 - Thus we are born free as we are born rational; not that we have actually the exercise of either: age that brings one, brings with it the other too.
Página 47 - ... which the father hath in the right of tuition during minority, and the right of honour all his life, may perhaps have caused a great part of the mistakes about this matter. For, to speak properly of them, the first of these is rather the privilege of children, and duty of parents, than any prerogative of paternal power. The nourishment and education of their children is a charge so incumbent on parents for their children's good that nothing can absolve them from taking care of it.
Página 41 - ... that ill deserves the name of confinement which hedges us in only from bogs and precipices. So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom...
Página 42 - But freedom is not, as we are told, 'a liberty for every man to do what he lists', for who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? But a liberty to dispose and order as he lists his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is; and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own.
Página 40 - Adam was created a perfect man, his body and mind in full possession of their strength and reason, and so was capable from the first instant of his being to provide for his own support and preservation and govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him.
Página 45 - ... but that which is common to them both, whether it be the law of nature, or municipal law of their country ; yet this freedom exempts not a son from that honour which he ought,, by the law of God. and nature, to pay his parents. God having made the parents instruments in his great design of continuing the race of mankind, and the occasions of life to their children; as he hath laid on them an obligation to nourish, preserve, and bring up their offspring...
Página 41 - So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For ' in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.