Brownson's Defence: Defence of the Article on the Laboring Classes. From the Boston Quarterly Review

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Страница 47 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Страница 46 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Страница 47 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Страница 69 - I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Страница 47 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Страница 73 - But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
Страница 24 - But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD...
Страница 68 - ... ought also to cease of course. For, naturally speaking, the instant a man ceases to be, he ceases to have any dominion : else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to diref t their disposal for a million of ages after him : which would be highly absurd and inconvenient.
Страница 71 - ... it remains in him by the principles of universal law, till such time as he does some other act which shows an intention to abandon it; for then it becomes, naturally speaking, publici juris once more, and is liable to be again appropriated by the next occupant.
Страница 92 - But there is no foundation in nature or natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...

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