 | George Hugh Smith - Jurisprudence - 1893 - 106 pages
...multitude, so united in one person, is called a commonwealth ; in Latin, civi/us. This is the generation of that great " Leviathan," or, rather, to speak more...which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence.''8 The sovereign is created not by covenant between himself and the people, but by covenant... | |
 | George Hugh Smith - Jurisprudence - 1893 - 130 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...which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence."3 The sovereign is created not by covenant between himself and the people, but by covenant... | |
 | Ferdinand Ezra M. Bullowa - Sovereignty - 1895 - 96 pages
...united in one person is called the Commonwealth. This is 35 the generation of that great' Leviathian,' or rather to speak more reverently of that mortal...owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence" (1). " And he that carrieth this person is called Sovereign, and said to have sovereign power, and... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...multitude thus united he calls a commonwealth. It is the great Leviathan. Or, speaking reverently, it is "that mortal god to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." In such a representative man (Hobbes here drops the words " or assembly of men " 3) consists the 1... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...he calls a commonwealth. It is the great Leviathan. Or, speaking reverently, it is "that mortal go.i to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence." In such a representative man (Hobbes here drops the words " or assembly of men " 3) consists the 1... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Great Britain - 1903 - 952 pages
...Political Society or Commonwealth, " that great Leviathan — or rather, to speak more reverently, that mortal god — to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence." This [1642 was the plan of the series of systematic treatises which he projected. They were to be in... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Frederic William Maitland - Philosophers - 1904 - 264 pages
...below it are various symbols of temporal and spiritual power. The great Leviathan, he tells us, is that mortal god to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence. But he is also a machine. We are to take him to pieces in imagination, as we actually take to pieces... | |
 | William Archibald Dunning - Political science - 1905 - 484 pages
...might is the totality of the powers of those who have instituted it. Such is the origin and nature of " that great ' leviathan,' or rather, to speak more...under the ' immortal God,' our peace and defence." * How adroitly Hobbes shaped the formula of his contract for the ulterior purposes of his philosophy... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...to say, to appoint one man or assembly of men to bear their person. . . . This is the generation of that great Leviathan or, rather, to speak more reverently...owe under the immortal God our peace and defence.' But an assembly of men, though the sovereign power placed in it may be ' as great as possibly men can... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - Democracy - 1909 - 140 pages
...done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a Commonwealth. . . . This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently,...owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence." — The Leviathan, in the hope of being able to say it at a later lecture : and I must close by saying... | |
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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, 
