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" This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God, "
Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 51
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a Commonwealth, in Latin Chntas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently)...him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he Lath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a Commonwealth, in Latin Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reve-rently)...that mortal God, to which we owe, under the immortal (iod, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a Commonwealth, in Latin Civittw. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently)...that mortal God, to which we owe, under the immortal Coil, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by <>vcry particular man in the commonwealth,...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 11; Volume 29

1841 - 412 pages
...multitude so united in one person, is called a commonwealth, in Latin, Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to whom we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and our defence. And in him consisteth the essence of...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; or the principles and rules of style ...

Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a commonwealth, in Latin civitas. This is the generation of the great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently)...defence. For by this authority, given him by every icular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...cJiildren of pride." — Leviathan, Pi. II., ch. xxviii. And, once more, — " This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently)...owe under the Immortal God our peace and defence." — PL II., ch. xvii. Leviathan, in short, is the impersonation of absolute power. When this work was...
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Geschichte der christlichen Philosophie, Volume 6

Heinrich Ritter - 1851 - 600 pages
...of these creatures is natural , that of men is by covenant only. 2) L. 1. This is the generation of that great Leviathan or rather, to speak more reverently,..., under the immortal God , our peace and defence. 3) De cive 10, 1. 4) De согр. 1 , 9 ; de corp. pol. 1,6,8. п>е!фе ibn »or aßen anbern gieren...
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Geschichte der Philosophie, Volume 10

Ritter - 1851 - 600 pages
...natural , that of men is by covenant only. 2) L. 1. This is the generation of that great Lerialhan or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal...owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence. 3) De cire 10, 1. 4) De corp. 1 , 9 ; de corp. pol. 1,0,8. г„ч-1фе ib. n »or atten anbern Spieren...
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Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Volume 1

William Whewell - 1852 - 316 pages
...that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently," [that is with the reverence due to it] " of that Mortal God to which we owe (under the Immortal God) our peace and defence." As there is no element of justice or morality in man while still unsocial, and no society but the union...
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Notes and Queries

1852 - 672 pages
..." of that great Leviathan, or, to speak more reverently" (that is, with the reverence due to it), " of that mortal God to which we owe (under the Immortal God) our peace and defence." This " mortal God," thus constituted, may very fitly be represented by the giant image, made up of...
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