 There is a twofold liberty — natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt), and civil or federal. The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it...  A History of American Literature - Page 128by Moses Coit Tyler - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 lehte
...relation to man, simply hath liberty to do as he lists ; it is a liberty to do evil as well as to do good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent...exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men to grow more evil, and, in time, to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores —... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 lehte
...least restraint of the most just authority. The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes men to grow more evil, and, in time, to be worse than brute beasts : omnes sumus licentia deteriores — we all become worse by licence. That is the great enemy of truth and... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 448 lehte
...beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as...evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sumus licentia deteriores. This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast, which all... | |
 | Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 lehte
...Winthrop had violated their "liberty," he dismissed their notion as a vulgar "natural" liberty, which "makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts." In contrast, "civil" liberty enabled men to conform to God's law. This higher liberty induced men to... | |
 | Lauren Berlant - 1991 - 277 lehte
...which we are free to do evil as well as good and in which we will probably do more evil than good. "The exercise and maintaining of this liberty makes...evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts: omnes sutnus licentia deteriores" (341). Adherence to Winthrop's conflation of the covenants — "civil,"... | |
 | Charles S. McCoy, J. Wayne Baker - 1991 - 196 lehte
...beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority. . . . The other kind of liberty... | |
 | Amanda Porterfield - 1991 - 218 lehte
...Massachusetts Bay, put it to his General Court in 1645, "The exercise and maintaining of (natural) liberty makes men grow more evil and in time to be worse than brute beasts," but "moral . . . liberty is the proper end and object of authority ... it is a liberty to that only... | |
 | Lawrence W. Towner - 1993 - 360 lehte
...205-207] distinguishes between natural or corrupt liberty (corrupted by the Fall], the exercise of which "makes men grow more evil, and in time to be worse than brute beasts," and civil or federal liberty, which is "maintained and exercised in a way of subjection to authority."... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 lehte
...corrupr) and civil or federal. The first is common to man with wild beasts and other creatures. . . . It is a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority. . . . This is that great enemy of truth and peace, that wild beast which all the ordinances of God... | |
 | The Editors of Rea - 1995 - 734 lehte
...beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good.... The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal, it may also be termed moral, in reference to the... | |
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