The Harleian Miscellany
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217323253
Paperback|9780217323253
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LEVELLER; THE PRINCIPLES AND MAXIMS CONSERNINO GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION, WHIcH ARE ASSERTED BY THOSE THAT ARE cOMMONLY CALLED LEVELLERS. London: Printed for Thomas Brewster, at the Three Bibles, at the west end of St. Paul's, 1659. Quarto, containing sixteen pages. the sect of the christians first arose, the tyrants wrapped them in beasts skins, to provoke the wild beasts to rend them in pieces; and, when Christ their Lord descended to earth, the priests and pharisees, finding his doctrine and holiness against their interest, cast upon him all the dirt of blasphemy, drunkenness, and confederacy with the worst of sinners; and, to make sure of his life, they rendered him an enemy to government, and told Pilate that he was no friend to Caesar if he let him go. It hath been the common practice of all tyrants, to corer the face of honesty with the mask of scandal and reproach, lest the people should be enamoured with its beauty. It is a master-piece in their politicks, to persuade the people that their best friends are their worst enemies, and that whosoever asserts their rights and liberties, is factious and seditious, and a disturber of their peacts. Did not the Gracchi, in Rome, by such policy, perish by the people's hands, whose liberties they sought to vindicate ? And do not some Englishmen now sutler deeply upon the same account, from the people's hands, for whose sakes they have prodigally hazarded their estates and lives J Are not some lovers of their country defamed, and esteemed prodigious monsters, being branded with the name of levellers, whilst those, that reproach and hate them, neither know their principles or opinions concerning government, nor the good they intend to their very enemies ? Those that have designed to prey upon the people's estates ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217323253 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217323251 |
| Weight | 1.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 In |
| List Price | $36.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 540 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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