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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 43
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Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of Their Historical Relations

James Bonar - 1893 - 440 pages
...an artificial man (though of greater stature and length than the natural man, for whose protection it was intended), and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul giving life and motion to the whole body."2 Outside this State there can be no laws and no justice...
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A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools

James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...protect and defend each other. Thus was created " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." From this idea of the formation of a State comes his view of monarchy. The community resigned all rights...
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The State & the Individual: An Introduction to Political Science, with ...

William Sharp McKechnie - 1896 - 476 pages
...art," he says, " is created that great leviathan called a commonwealth, or State, in Latin civitas, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." Again, " the pacts and covenants by which the parts of this body politic were at first made, set together...
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England, Volume 3

John Richard Green, Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 472 pages
...Covenant between man and man originally created " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." The fiction of such an " original contract" has long been dismissed from political speculation, but...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 pages
...Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil. In it Hobbes represents the commonwealth to be an artifi-- cial man ; " though of greater stature and strength than...for whose protection and defence it was intended." In it, he says, " the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as 1 See also De Cive, Praefatio ad Lectores....
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The World's Great Classics

Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 pages
...Covenant between man and man originally created " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." The fiction of such an " original contract " has long been dismissed from political speculation, but...
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Collectanea: Essays, Addresses and Reviews

Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence - 1899 - 456 pages
...its borders. There 1 Ancient Law, p. 257. 3 "That Great Leviathan, called the Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater...for whose protection and defence it was intended." — Hobbes' Leviathan. are undoubtedly in it the materials for a new science, possibly including many...
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History of the Theory of Sovereignty Since Rousseau, Issue 4; Issue 12

Charles Edward Merriam - 1900 - 256 pages
...State at some length and based his theory of sovereignty thereon. Hobbes-compared the commonwealth to an " artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural." Grotius developed the idea of the sovereignty of the state as an organism, with the two bearers of...
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A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen ...

Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...art by which God governs the world, creates " that great Leviathan called the Commonwealth or State, undight, And layd her stole aside. Hei angel's face. In this huge body the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to all its parts,...
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The Early History of the Tories: From the Accession of Charles the Second to ...

Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 pages
...multitude by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves the author ' ; or, again, as ' but an artificial man, though of greater stature and...for whose protection and defence it was intended.' This conception of the State as a unity was in itself dear to Tory minds. But how was this unity to...
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