Harrington and His Oceans: a Study of a 17th Century Utopia and Its Influence in America1914 - 223 páginas |
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... English political thought ; in the second place , to trace a con- nection , which has often been surmised but never established , between Oceana and the political institu- tions of America ; and finally to discuss the revival of ...
... English political thought ; in the second place , to trace a con- nection , which has often been surmised but never established , between Oceana and the political institu- tions of America ; and finally to discuss the revival of ...
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... English Historical Review ( April 1891 ) , and the chapter on Harrington in Franck's Reformateurs et Publicistes de l'Europe are nothing but summaries of Oceana . The article by Theodore Dwight in the Political Science Quarterly ( March ...
... English Historical Review ( April 1891 ) , and the chapter on Harrington in Franck's Reformateurs et Publicistes de l'Europe are nothing but summaries of Oceana . The article by Theodore Dwight in the Political Science Quarterly ( March ...
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... English volunteer regiment . He was thus brought into contact with the court of the Prince of Orange , as well as that of his great - uncle's pupil , now 1 The life of Harrington by Toland , prefixed to his collection of Harrington's ...
... English volunteer regiment . He was thus brought into contact with the court of the Prince of Orange , as well as that of his great - uncle's pupil , now 1 The life of Harrington by Toland , prefixed to his collection of Harrington's ...
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... English gentleman . He is described as a man 1 Wood , " Athenæ Oxonienses , " iii . 1115 , and Herbert , " Memoirs of the Two Last Years of the Reign of . . . King Charles I. , ” p . 7 . Ibid . iii . 1116 ; Herbert , p . 90 . " Toland ...
... English gentleman . He is described as a man 1 Wood , " Athenæ Oxonienses , " iii . 1115 , and Herbert , " Memoirs of the Two Last Years of the Reign of . . . King Charles I. , ” p . 7 . Ibid . iii . 1116 ; Herbert , p . 90 . " Toland ...
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... English renderings of Vergil , but their chief importance lies in the light which they throw on the nature of Harrington's mind ; for they show an artistic sense , subservient always to the artist's interest in politics . In his ...
... English renderings of Vergil , but their chief importance lies in the light which they throw on the nature of Harrington's mind ; for they show an artistic sense , subservient always to the artist's interest in politics . In his ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 191 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Página 176 - I know some say, let us have good laws and no matter for the men that execute them. But let them consider that though good laws do well, good men do better. For good laws may want good men and be abolished or evaded by ill men; but good men will never want good laws nor suffer ill ones.
Página 24 - ... those that choose the representers for the making of laws by which this state and kingdom are to be governed, are the persons who, taken together, do comprehend the local interest of this kingdom; that is, the persons in whom all land lies, and those in corporations in whom all trading lies.
Página 24 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Página 194 - The Frame of Government. The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Página 105 - ... but it was carried by ballot that it was a steady government, though it is true by the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady government; so tomorrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the balance lay in one hand, and the government in another.
Página 147 - It is sufficiently understood that the opinion of right to property is of moment in all matters of government. A noted author has made property the foundation of all government; and most of our political writers seem inclined to follow him in that particular.
Página 194 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 203 - Though the people of the -world, in the dregs of the Gothic empire, be yet tumbling and tossing upon the bed of sickness, they cannot die ; nor is there any means of recovery for them but by ancient prudence, whence of necessity it must come to pass that this drug be better known. If France, Italy, and Spain were not all sick, all corrupted together, there would be none of them so; for the sick would not be able to withstand the sound, nor the sound to preserve their health, without curing of the...
Página 176 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.