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A philosophical enquiry into the laws of nature: wherein The Essence, the Principal Heads, the Order, the Publication, and the Obligation of these laws are deduced from The nature of things. Wherein also, the principles of Mr. Hobbes's philosophy, both in a State of Nature, and of Civil Society, are examined into, and confuted. Written originally in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard Cumberland, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Peterborough. And translated into English, With large Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix, by the Reverend John Towers, D. D. Prebendary of St. Patrick's Cathedral Church, Dublin, and Vicar of Castleknock, &c.
Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718.Date: MDCCL. [1750] [1751]- Books
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Observations relating to religious tests. All men, considered as in a state of separate and unconnected existence (which is called the state of nature) are equal, and have equal rights. These rights are called natural rights. ...
Date: 1791?]- Books
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On Saturday, the 21st of July next, will be published, price sixpence, with a beautiful emblematical frontispiece, ... and three sheets of letter-press; the first number of a new work, to be published weekly, and completed in forty sixpenny numbers, entitled, A biographical history of patriots: ... By Rowland Harries, L.L.D. and Launcelot Burke, ... with an appendix, ... By a celebrated female pen. ...
Harries, Rowland.Date: [1770?]- Books
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An essay on the natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes: To which a Silver Medal was adjudged by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem, April 1792. Corrected and enlarged. By William Lawrence Brown, D. D. Professor Of Moral Philosophy, And The Law Of Nature, And Of Ecclesiastical History; And Minister Of The English Church At Utrecht.
Brown, William Laurence, 1755-1830.Date: 1793- Books
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The origin of duty and right in man, considered.
Date: 1796