 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 458 pages
...the aggrandizement of a few infolent rulers '< Thefe dodrines, fo agreeable to the populace, and fo conformable to the ideas of primitive equality, which...men, were greedily received by the multitude ; and fcattere4 Liv. 2. chap. 74. * Froiflard , liv. 3. chjp. 7 v Walfingham, p. 275. the fparks of that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 432 pages
...the levellers in the reign of Richard the Second, yet affirms that the doctrines of John Ball were " conformable to the ideas of primitive "• equality, which are engraven in the hearts of all men." Boldnefs formerly was not the character of Atheifts as fuch. -They were even of a character, nearly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 438 pages
...the levellers in the reign of Richard the Second, yet affirms that the doctrines of John Ball were " conformable to the ideas of primitive " equality, -which are engraven in the hearts of alt " men." Boldnefs formerly was not the character of Atheifts as fuch. They were even of a character... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 530 pages
...degradation of the more considerable part of the species, and the aggrandizement of a few insolent rulers.1" These doctrines, so agreeable to the populace, and...the sparks of that sedition, which the present tax raised into a conflagration.' THE imposition of three groats a head had been far- Insurrecmed out to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 458 pages
...the levellers in the reign of Richard the Second, yet affirms that the doctrines of John Ball were " conformable to the ideas of primitive " equality, which are engraven in the hearts of all " men." Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. They were even of a character nearly the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 - 1817 - 88 pages
...had arisen from the degradation of the more considerable part of the species, and the aggrandizement of a few insolent rulers. These doctrines, so agreeable...primitive equality which are engraven in the hearts of men, were greedily received by the multitude ; and scattered the seeds of that sedition, which the... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...proceedings of the levellers, in the reign of Richard II., yet affirms that the doctrines of John Bull were conformable to the ideas of primitive equality, which are engraven in the hearts of all men. Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists, as such. They were even of a character nearly... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 386 pages
...degradation of the more considerable part of the species, and the aggrandizement of a few insolent rulers. 7 These doctrines, so agreeable to the populace, and...greedily received by the multitude; and scattered the seeds of that sedition, which the present tax raised into a conflagration. 8 INSURRECTIONS OF THE COMMON... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 482 pages
...of the species, and the aggrandizement of a few insolent rulers. 11 These doctrines, so agreeable.to the populace, and so conformable to the ideas of primitive...greedily received by the multitude; and scattered the seeds of that sedition, which the present tax raised into a conflagration.1 , .; ,,.... , . ... •... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 418 pages
...degradation of the more considerable part of the species, and the aggrandisement of a few insolent rulers8. These doctrines, so agreeable to the populace, and...the sparks of that sedition, which the present tax raised into a conflagration 9. The imposition of three groats a head had been fanned out to tax gatherers... | |
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... the first origin of mankind from one common stock, their equal right to liberty and to all the goods of nature, the tyranny of artificial distinctions, and the abuses which had arisen from the degradation of the more considerable part of the species,... 
