PASSAGE IDENTIFICATIONS Flashcards
“our virtues and vices depend too much on our circumstances”
Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
“some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,/ some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood”
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” Thomas Grey
“What need of Satyr to reform the town? / Or laws to keep our vices down? / Let ‘em to thee due homage pay, / This will reform us all the shortest way”
“A Hymn to the Pillory,” Defoe
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions”
“The Second Treatise of Government,” Locke
“hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God… Slaies an immortality rather than a life”
Milton, Aeropagitica
“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty / Is worth a whole eternity in bondage”
Addison, Cato
“So the industrious Bees do hourly strive/ To bring their Loads of Honey to the Hive;/ Their sordid Owners always reap the Gains,/ And poorly recompense their Toil and Pains.”
The Woman’s Labour, Collier
“I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
“I could not help pitying, even in point of taste, those who, immers’d in a gross sensuality, are insensible to the so delicate charms of virtue, than which even pleasure has not a greater friend, nor than vice a greater enemy”
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Cleland
“They suffered not like men who might find a glory and fortitude in oppression, but like dogs that loved the whip and bell, and fawned the more they were beaten”
Oroonoko, Behn
“The prerogative of the crown is to exert the constitutional powers entrusted to it in a way, not of blind favour and partiality, but of wisdom and judgment. This is the spirit of our constitution. The people too have their prerogative, and, I hope, the fine words of Dryden will be engraven on our hearts, ‘Freedom is the English subject’s Prerogative’”
John Wilkes The North Briton No. 45
“Christ urg’d it as wherewith to justifie himself, that he preacht in publick; yet writing is more publick then preaching; and more easie to refutation, if need be, there being so many whose businesse and profession meerly it is, to be the champions of Truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed byt their sloth, or unability?”
John Milton Areopagitica
“Although I know whenever the great rights, the trial by jury, freedom of the press, or liberty of conscience, came in question in that body, the invasion of them is resisted by able advocates, yet their Magna Charta does not contain any one provision for the security of those rights, respecting which the people of America are most alarmed.”
James Madison, Rep. Madison Argues for a Bill of Rights
“For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power.”
Alexander Hamilton & Publius, Federalist 84
“A lawyer is an honest employment, so is mine,” and that “Like me too, he acts in a double capacity, both against rogues, and for ‘em”
John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
“That there be prefixed to the Constitution a declaration, that all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people.”
James Madison, Madisons Intro to the Bill of Rights
He view’d his Consort with an envious Eye;
Greedy of Pow’r, he hugg’d he tott’ring
Throne;
And, better to secure his doubtful Rule,
Roll’d his wise Eye-balls, and pronounc’d her Fool
Man the Monarch, Mary Leapor
Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song, / Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, / Whence flow these wishes for the common good, / By feeling hearts alone best understood, / I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat: / What pangs excruciating must molest, / What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast? / That from a father seiz’d his babe belov’d: / Such, such my case. And can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?
“To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth,” Phillis Wheatley
