Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Band 1T. Cadell, 1784 - 527 Seiten |
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... , not in a representative body . The confequences were : When the people , by fuccefs and conqueft , had become very numérous , and had spread themselves to a great diftance from from the capital , the city - tribes , though £ 4 III .
... , not in a representative body . The confequences were : When the people , by fuccefs and conqueft , had become very numérous , and had spread themselves to a great diftance from from the capital , the city - tribes , though £ 4 III .
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... body , or the whole body enjoys the power as compofed of parts , which have each a diftinct power and authority . The VENETIAN ariftocracy is an inftance of the first kind of government : The POLISH of the fecond . In the VENETIAN ...
... body , or the whole body enjoys the power as compofed of parts , which have each a diftinct power and authority . The VENETIAN ariftocracy is an inftance of the first kind of government : The POLISH of the fecond . In the VENETIAN ...
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... body , and the whole people another , without any of thofe private feuds and animofities , which fpread ruin and defolation every where . It is easy to fee the disadvantages of a POLISH nobility in every one of these particulars . . It ...
... body , and the whole people another , without any of thofe private feuds and animofities , which fpread ruin and defolation every where . It is easy to fee the disadvantages of a POLISH nobility in every one of these particulars . . It ...
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... body like the ROMAN tribes , be quite unfit for govern- ment , yet , when difperfed in fmall bodies , they are more susceptible both of reason and order ; the force of popu- lar currents and tides is , in a great measure , broken ; and ...
... body like the ROMAN tribes , be quite unfit for govern- ment , yet , when difperfed in fmall bodies , they are more susceptible both of reason and order ; the force of popu- lar currents and tides is , in a great measure , broken ; and ...
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... their own private intereft is alone concerned . Honour is a great check upon mankind : But where a confiderable body of men act together , this check is , in a great 7 . measure , measure , removed ; fince a man is fure to ( 41 )
... their own private intereft is alone concerned . Honour is a great check upon mankind : But where a confiderable body of men act together , this check is , in a great 7 . measure , measure , removed ; fince a man is fure to ( 41 )
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