Sublime

Locke acreditava na condição social do homem e via a terra como um bem comum a todos: não seria Deus e nem o consentimento, mas o trabalho, que daria razão à propriedade. O governo seria responsável por proteger a propriedade, mediante composição de leis e regulamentos, fornecendo títulos que resguardassem o proprietário contra competidores que tiv

Right before the Princeton battle, Washington informed Philadelphia financier Robert Morris that “we have the greatest occasion at present for hard money to pay a certain set of people who are of particular use to us . . . Silver would be most convenient.” 19 Washington considered Morris, a huge man with a ruddy complexion and a genial personality,

Only they who go to soirées and legislative balls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them.

dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.

And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature,—that for a subscription library. [n] I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto, procured fifty subscribers of forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our compan

If the men who took away beer as an unlawful pleasure had paused for a moment to define the lawful pleasures, there might be a different situation. If the men who had denied one liberty had taken the opportunity to affirm other liberties, there might be some defence for them. But it never occurs to them to admit any liberties at all.