Essays and treatises on several subjects ... A new edition, Band 1T. Cadell, 1772 |
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... ROMAN government under the emperors as a mixture of defpotifm and liberty , where the defpotifm prevailed ; and the ENGLISH government as a mixture of the same kind , where the liberty predominates . The confequences are conformable to ...
... ROMAN government under the emperors as a mixture of defpotifm and liberty , where the defpotifm prevailed ; and the ENGLISH government as a mixture of the same kind , where the liberty predominates . The confequences are conformable to ...
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... ROMAN republic gave the whole legislative power to the people , without allowing a negative voice either to the nobility or confuls . This unbounded power they poffeffed in a collective , not in a representative body . The confequences ...
... ROMAN republic gave the whole legislative power to the people , without allowing a negative voice either to the nobility or confuls . This unbounded power they poffeffed in a collective , not in a representative body . The confequences ...
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... ROMAN yoke became eafier upon the provinces , as TACITUS informs us ; and it may be obferved , that many of the worst emperors , DOMITIAN † , for inftance , were careful to prevent all oppreffion on the provinces . In ‡ TIBE- RIUS's ...
... ROMAN yoke became eafier upon the provinces , as TACITUS informs us ; and it may be obferved , that many of the worst emperors , DOMITIAN † , for inftance , were careful to prevent all oppreffion on the provinces . In ‡ TIBE- RIUS's ...
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... ROMAN history , confidered in a political view , is that between the beginning of the first and end of the last PUNIC war ; the due balance between the nobility and people being then fixed by the contests of the tribunes , and not being ...
... ROMAN history , confidered in a political view , is that between the beginning of the first and end of the last PUNIC war ; the due balance between the nobility and people being then fixed by the contests of the tribunes , and not being ...
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... ROMAN government , and render its con- vulfions and dying agonies more violent and painful . I would not be understood to mean , that public affairs deferve no care and attention at all . Would men be moderate moderate and confiftent ...
... ROMAN government , and render its con- vulfions and dying agonies more violent and painful . I would not be understood to mean , that public affairs deferve no care and attention at all . Would men be moderate moderate and confiftent ...
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