A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 1J. W. Parker and Son, 1852 - Political science |
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... treat- 689 65 ment . CHAPTER IV . On the Technical Language of Politics . 73 § 1 Nature of technical terms in politics 77 2 Their formation from common words 78 3 The scientific meaning of a technical term ought to approxi- mate to its ...
... treat- 689 65 ment . CHAPTER IV . On the Technical Language of Politics . 73 § 1 Nature of technical terms in politics 77 2 Their formation from common words 78 3 The scientific meaning of a technical term ought to approxi- mate to its ...
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... treat scoundrel cats . ' After this the criminal was to be beheaded ; all which was punctually executed .'- Chenier's Morocco , vol . i . p . 339 .; add . of Eng . translator . On punishments of animals , see Selden , ubi sup . lib . i ...
... treat scoundrel cats . ' After this the criminal was to be beheaded ; all which was punctually executed .'- Chenier's Morocco , vol . i . p . 339 .; add . of Eng . translator . On punishments of animals , see Selden , ubi sup . lib . i ...
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... Lord Kames ( ib . ) cites some instances of government and punishment among animals , which may be safely treated as fabulous . species is continued by the same law as the human D 2 SECT . 4. ] ON THE PROVINCE OF POLITICS . 35.
... Lord Kames ( ib . ) cites some instances of government and punishment among animals , which may be safely treated as fabulous . species is continued by the same law as the human D 2 SECT . 4. ] ON THE PROVINCE OF POLITICS . 35.
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... treating the life of a nation as analogous to that of a succession of individuals , and thus considering a generation as a definite period of time , equivalent to a century , a decade , or a year , that we can speak of the successive ...
... treating the life of a nation as analogous to that of a succession of individuals , and thus considering a generation as a definite period of time , equivalent to a century , a decade , or a year , that we can speak of the successive ...
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... treated the science of political economy , have objected to its name , as not being sufficiently comprehensive . It has appeared to them that the natural laws which govern the production and distribution of wealth are in- / dependent of ...
... treated the science of political economy , have objected to its name , as not being sufficiently comprehensive . It has appeared to them that the natural laws which govern the production and distribution of wealth are in- / dependent of ...
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Page 426 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 408 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 428 - The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties and a greater security against any that are not of it.
Page 34 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Page 166 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain.
Page 273 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 18 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 157 - Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth ; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man...
Page 428 - Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth.
Page 344 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.