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101Author:  Heart, EdwardRequires cookie*
 Title:  Flushing Remonstrance (1657)  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: December 27, 1657
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102Author:  Hume, David, 1711-1776Requires cookie*
 Title:  Of Civil Liberty  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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103Author:  Hume, DavidRequires cookie*
 Title:  Idea of a perfect Commonwealth  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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104Author:  Hume, DavidRequires cookie*
 Title:  Of the First Principles of Government  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eve, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. The soldan of EGYPT, or the emperor of ROME, might drive his harmless subjects, like brute beasts, against their sentiments and inclination: But he must, at least, have led his mamalukes, or praetorian bands, like men, by their opinion.
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105Author:  Hume, David, 1711-1776Requires cookie*
 Title:  Of Commerce  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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106Author:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Constitution of the Iroquois Nation  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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107Author:  Locke, John, 1632-1704.Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Letter Concerning Toleration / by John Locke  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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108Author:  Luther, Martin, 1483-1546Requires cookie*
 Title:  Concerning Christian Liberty / by Martin Luther  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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109Author:  Luther, MartinRequires cookie*
 Title:  95 Theses  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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110Author:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Maryland Toleration Act (1649)  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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111Author:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Dutch Declaration of Independence (1581)  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, to all whom it may concern, do by these Presents send greeting:
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112Author:  New England ConfederationRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of England (May 19, 1643)  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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113Author:  Penn, WilliamRequires cookie*
 Title:  Charter of Liberties (1682)  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: To ALL PEOPLE to whom these presents shall come WHEREAS King Charles the second by his Letters, Patents under the Great Seal of England for the Considerations therein mentioned hath been graciously pleased to give and grant unto me William Penn (By the name of William Penn Esq'r son and heir of Sr. William Penn deceased) and to my heirs and assigns forever ALL that tract of land or province called PENNSILVANIA in America with divers Great Powers Preheminencies Royalties Jurisdictions and Authorities necessary for the Well being and Government thereof NOW KNOW YE That for the Welll Being and Government of the said Province and for the Encouragement of all the Freeman and Planters that may be therein concerned in pursuance of the powers afore mentond I the said William Penn have declared Granted and Confirmed and by these presents for me my heirs and Assigns do declare grant and Confirm unto all the flreemen Planters and Adventurers of in and to the said Province those Liberties Franchises and properties TO Enjoyed and Kept by the Freemen Planters and Inhabitants of and in the said province of Pennsilvania forever.
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114Author:  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: However important it may be, in order to form a proper judgment of the natural state of man, to consider him from his origin, and to examine him, as it were, in the first embryo of the species; I shall not attempt to trace his organization through its successive approaches to perfection: I shall not stop to examine in the animal system what he might have been in the beginning, to become at last what he actually is; I shall not inquire whether, as Aristotle thinks, his neglected nails were no better at first than crooked talons; whether his whole body was not, bear-like, thick covered with rough hair; and whether, walking upon all-fours, his eyes, directed to the earth, and confined to a horizon of a few paces extent, did not at once point out the nature and limits of his ideas. I could only form vague, and almost imaginary, conjectures on this subject. Comparative anatomy has not as yet been sufficiently improved; neither have the observations of natural philosophy been sufficiently ascertained, to establish upon such foundations the basis of a solid system. For this reason, without having recourse to the supernatural informations with which we have been favoured on this head, or paying any attention to the changes, that must have happened in the conformation of the interior and exterior parts of man's body, in proportion as he applied his members to new purposes, and took to new aliments, I shall suppose his conformation to have always been, what we now behold it; that he always walked on two feet, made the same use of his hands that we do of ours, extended his looks over the whole face of nature, and measured with his eyes the vast extent of the heavens.
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115Author:  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Discourse on Political Economy  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE word Economy, or Œconomy, is derived from oikos, a house, and vomos, law, and meant originally only the wise and legitimate government of the house for the common good of the whole family. The meaning of the term was then extended to the government of that great family, the State. To distinguish these two senses of the word, the latter is called general or political economy, and the former domestic or particular economy. The first only is discussed in the present discourse.
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116Author:  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Social Contract : or Principles of Political Right  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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117Author:  Simmel, Georg, 1858-1918Requires cookie*
 Title:  How is Society Possible?  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Kant could propose and answer the fundamental question of his philosophy, How is nature possible?, only because for him nature was nothing but the representation (Vorstellung) of nature. This does not mean merely that "the world is my representation," that we thus can speak of nature only so far as it is a content of our consciousness, but that what we call nature is a special way in which our intellect assembles, orders, and forms the sense-perceptions. These "given" perceptions, of color, taste, tone, temperature, resistance, smell, which in the accidental sequence of subjective experience course through our consciousness, are in and of themselves not yet "nature;" but they become "nature" through the activity of the mind, which combines them into objects and series of objects, into substances and attributes and into causal coherences. As the elements of the world are given to us immediately, there does not exist among them, according to Kant, that coherence (Verbindung) which alone can make out of them the intelligible regular (gesetzmassig) unity of nature; or rather, which signifies precisely the being-nature (Natur-Sein) of those in themselves incoherently and irregularly emerging world-fragments. Thus the Kantian world-picture grows in the most peculiar rejection (Wiederspiel), Our sense-impressions are for this process purely subjective, since they depend upon the physico-psychical organization, which in other beings might be different, but they become "objects" since they are taken up by the forms of our intellect, and by these are fashioned into fixed regularities and into a coherent picture of "nature." On the other hand, however, those perceptions are the real "given," the unalterably accumulating content of the world and the assurance of an existence independent of ourselves, so that now those very intellectual formings of the same into objects, coherences, regularities, appear as subjective, as that which is brought to the situation by ourselves, in contrast with that which we have received from the externally existent - i.e., these formings appear as the functions of the intellect itself, which in themselves unchangeable, had constructed from another sense-material a nature with another content. Nature is for Kant a definite sort of cognition, a picture growing through and in our cognitive categories. The question then, How is nature possible?, i.e., what are the conditions which must be present in order that a "nature" may be given, is resolved by him through discovery of the forms which constitute the essence of our intellect and therewith bring into being "nature" as such.
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118Author:  Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Requires cookie*
 Title:  Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection.  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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119Author:  Cummins Maria S. (Maria Susanna) 1827-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  Haunted hearts  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: Every circle has its centre. To describe a circle, one must choose a given point, and radiate thence at equal distances. The north-eastern corner of New Jersey is that part of the earth's surface on which I propose to describe a circle, and the centre of that circle is Stein's Tavern. “Adieu! My sole pang in leaving New Jersey is the thought that I shall never again see the fair friend, `Whose heart was my home in an enemy's land.' I flatter myself that the emotion is mutual. Continue, I entreat you, to cherish tender recollections of your devoted Josselyn. Our paths, like our lots in life, lie apart. Had Heaven placed you, dear girl, in the sphere you are so well fitted to adorn, who knows what we might have been to each other? It grieves me that one whose beauty and grace have cheered my exile should be doomed to waste her sweetness upon a neighborhood so contracted and vulgar as that of Stein's Plains; but habit, I have no doubt, reconciles you to many things which shock the sensibilities of a stranger; and, alas! every station in life has its disadvantages. It may be a consolation to you to be assured that you will not be quite forgotten in those more aristocratic circles to which my destiny leads me. I shall still carry your image in my heart. Many a fair daughter of my own country will suffer by a comparison with it; and when the toast goes round I shall pique the curiosity of my brother officers by giving them the `New Jersey belle.'
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120Author:  Cary Alice 1820-1871Requires cookie*
 Title:  The adopted daughter  
 Published:  2002 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: BY ALICE CAREY, AUTHOR OF “CLOVERNOOK,” “LYRA,” ETC. “Miss Pridore,—A conversation with your brother this afternoon, in which my father's misfortunes were the subject of ridicule, will make it necessary for me to forego the pleasure of seeing you at his birth-night party. Your friend,
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