work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3580,"",Reading Saree Makdisi's William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (287),2005-05-02 00:00:00 UTC,"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any ... For every one, as he is himself, so he has a self-propriety, else he could not be himself ...
(p. 55)",2009-06-09,9265,•REVISIT and fill out citation,"""To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any.""",Empire,2012-01-12 19:00:19 UTC,""
3580,"",Reading Macpherson's Possessive Individualism (140),2005-06-22 00:00:00 UTC,"To every Individuall in nature is given an individual property by nature, not to be invaded or usurped by any: for every one as he is himselfe, so he hath a selfe propriety, else he could not be himselfe, and on this no second may presume to deprive any of, without manifest violation and affront to the very principles of nature, and of the Rules of equity and justice between man and man; mine and thine cannot be except this be; No man hath power over my rights and liberties, and I over no mans; I may be but an Individuall, enjoy my selfe, and my self propriety, and may write my selfe no more than my selfe, or presume any further; if I doe, I am an encroacher & an invader upon an other mans Right, to which I have no Right. For by naturall birth, all men are equally and alike borne to like propriety, liberty, and freedome, and as we are delivered of God by the hand of nature into this world, every one with a naturall, innate freedome and propriety (as it were writ in the table of every mans heart, never to be obliterated) even so are we to live, every one equally and alike to enjoy his Birth-right and priviledge; even all whereof God by nature hath made him free.",,9266,•INTEREST. Note this use of invasion. Macpherson is careful to stay close to the c17 language and talks about the invasion of rights in his sections on Hobbes. ,"""To every Individuall in nature is given an individual property by nature, not to be invaded or usurped by any: for every one as he is himselfe, so he hath a selfe propriety""","",2009-09-14 19:34:04 UTC,Opening paragraph