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  2. Algernon Sidney - Wikipedia

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    Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England , he opposed the king's execution.

  3. Discourses Concerning Government - Wikipedia

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    Trevor Colbourn writes that Sidney's political thought was a significant influence on Andrew Eliot, Jonathan Mayhew, Sam Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr. [27] The Discourses was in the personal libraries of John Adams, Robert Carter I, Robert Carter III and Thomas Jefferson (listed in 1771). [28] Adams in particular was "a lifelong Sidney enthusiast".

  4. Earl of Leicester - Wikipedia

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    Philip Sidney 1619–1698 3rd Earl of Leicester: Algernon Sidney 1623–1683: Lady Lucy Sidney 1630–1685: Henry Sidney 1641–1704 Earl of Romney: Richard Sackville 1522–1677 5th Earl of Dorset, 5th Baron Buckhurst: Duke of Beaufort, 1682: Baron Cranfield, of Cranfield in the County of Middlesex, 1674 Earl of Middlesex (2nd creation), 1675 ...

  5. Category:1698 in the Province of New York - Wikipedia

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  6. Category : 1698 establishments in the Province of New York

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    Pages in category "1698 establishments in the Province of New York" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  7. Good Old Cause - Wikipedia

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    Sidney, Algernon (25 October 2006) [1683], Colonel Sidney's Speech Delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold December 7th 1683, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, archived from the original on 16 July 2012

  8. God helps those who help themselves - Wikipedia

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    But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", [13] apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase. Benjamin Franklin later used it in his Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) and has been widely quoted.

  9. Whiggism - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) Lee Ward (2008) argues that the philosophical origins of Whiggism came in James Tyrrell 's Patriarcha Non Monarcha (1681), John Locke 's Two Treatises of Government (1689) and Algernon Sidney 's Discourses Concerning Government (1698). [ 14 ]