Froschmeuseler, Volume 2

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F. A. Brockhaus, 1900
 

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Página 159 - COMMONWEALTH" is said to be "instituted" when a "multitude" of men do agree and "covenant, every one with every one" that to whatsoever "man," or "assembly of men," shall be given by the major part the "right " to "present" the person of them all, that is to say, to be their "representative"; every one, as well he that "voted for it...
Página 264 - One of these is the proposition that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side.
Página 178 - Plato, a man of high authority indeed, but least of all for his commonwealth, in the book of his Laws, which no city ever yet received, fed his fancy with making many edicts to his airy burgomasters, which they who otherwise admire him, wish had been rather buried and excused in the genial cups of an Academic night-sitting.
Página 149 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.
Página 152 - Laws are necessary relations flowing from the nature of things, and in this sense all beings have their laws, divinity has its laws, the material world has its laws, the intelligences superior to men have their laws, the beasts have their laws, man has his laws...
Página 348 - Works by James Smetham. LETTERS. With an Introductory Memoir. Edited by SARAH SMETHAM and WILLIAM DAVIES. With a Portrait. LITERARY WORKS. Edited by WILLIAM DAVIES. Life of Swift. By Sir HENRY CRAIK, KCB 2 Vols.
Página 272 - Yes ! if the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.
Página 243 - Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them — these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.
Página 149 - This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it...
Página 41 - Chinese, of ten times my fortune, would avail himself of such an opportunity without scruple; and why should not I, who want money as much as any mandarin in China ? Rousseau would have been charmed to have seen me so occupied, and would have exclaimed, with rapture, " that he had found the " Emilius, who (he supposed) had subsisted only in '•

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