"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any."
— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed at the backside of the Cyclopian Mountains, by Martin Claw-Clergy
Date
1646
Metaphor
"To every individual in nature is given an individual property by nature not to be invaded or usurped by any."
Metaphor in Context
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)
(p. 55)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Saree Makdisi's William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (287)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1646).
An Arrow Against All Tyrants and Tyranny, Shot from the Prison of Newgate Into the Prerogative Bowels of the Arbitrary House of Lords and All Other Usurpers and Tyrants Whatsoever ([London]: Printed at the backside of the Cyclopian Mountains, by Martin Claw-Clergy, printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines, and are to be sould at the signe of the Subjects Liberty, right opposite to persecuting Court, 1646). <Link to ESTC>
See also English Levellers, ed. Andrew Sharp (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).
An Arrow Against All Tyrants and Tyranny, Shot from the Prison of Newgate Into the Prerogative Bowels of the Arbitrary House of Lords and All Other Usurpers and Tyrants Whatsoever ([London]: Printed at the backside of the Cyclopian Mountains, by Martin Claw-Clergy, printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines, and are to be sould at the signe of the Subjects Liberty, right opposite to persecuting Court, 1646). <Link to ESTC>
See also English Levellers, ed. Andrew Sharp (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998).
Date of Entry
05/02/2005
Date of Review
06/09/2009
