Utopia; Or, the Happy Republic: A Philosophical RomanceBohn, 1845 - 279 Seiten |
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... gives us a high idea of the polished manners and amiable character of Athenian gentlemen . The first topic upon which they start is old age ; from this the transition is easy to the means by which old age may be rendered comfortable ...
... gives us a high idea of the polished manners and amiable character of Athenian gentlemen . The first topic upon which they start is old age ; from this the transition is easy to the means by which old age may be rendered comfortable ...
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... give birth to a race of human beings exceeding in physical force and beauty , in moral grandeur , in political power , in social happiness , everything hitherto known in the form of man . Communities in general bestow no attention on ...
... give birth to a race of human beings exceeding in physical force and beauty , in moral grandeur , in political power , in social happiness , everything hitherto known in the form of man . Communities in general bestow no attention on ...
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... give satisfaction to the most democratic of mankind . Virtue and wisdom were their sole titles to nobility and rule . They were to be chosen to govern , because nature , by bestowing on them the capacity , had evidently designed them ...
... give satisfaction to the most democratic of mankind . Virtue and wisdom were their sole titles to nobility and rule . They were to be chosen to govern , because nature , by bestowing on them the capacity , had evidently designed them ...
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... Give me the sole direction of the education of a state , and I will convert a republic into a monarchy , or a monarchy into a re- public , in the course of thirty years . It is the Archimedean lever that moves the world , as Plato ...
... Give me the sole direction of the education of a state , and I will convert a republic into a monarchy , or a monarchy into a re- public , in the course of thirty years . It is the Archimedean lever that moves the world , as Plato ...
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... give their votes at elections , and mocked with the appellation of citizens ? Artificers , subsisting by the fruits of their own labour , are essential to the existence of every city or community . But the class of hus- bandmen as ...
... give their votes at elections , and mocked with the appellation of citizens ? Artificers , subsisting by the fruits of their own labour , are essential to the existence of every city or community . But the class of hus- bandmen as ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amaurot ancient answered Antwerp appears Aristotle Atlantis better BISHOP BURNET called cardinal Charles Lamb chief cities commonwealth consider corrupt death delight desire discourse divine enemies engaged fall force friends give gold Halicarnassos happiness Hippodamos honour human husbandmen idle imaginary imagine island judge king la Litera labour land laws learning less likewise live look Lord Lord Bacon magistrates man's mankind manner matter ment Miletos mind Mithras Muretus nations nature neighbours never observed occasion Ochlocracy Oligarchy opinion perhaps persons Peter Giles philosopher Plato pleasure political preserved priests prince punishment Raphael reader reason reckon religion Republic rest seemed serve ship sick sion slaves soldiers sort Sparta Stallbaum syphogrants thieves things thought Timocracies tion town Utopia Utopians vast vices virtue wealth whole wisdom wise women worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 120 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 253 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 38 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 134 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Seite 265 - We imitate also flights of birds; we have some degrees of flying in the air. We have ships and boats for going under water and brooking of seas, also swimming-girdles and supporters. We have divers curious clocks and other like motions of return, and some perpetual motions. We imitate also motions of living creatures by images of men, beasts, birds, fishes, and serpents ; we have also a great number of other various motions, strange for equality, fineness and subtilty.
Seite 249 - And as we were thus in conference, there came one that seemed to be a messenger, in a rich huke, that spake with the Jew; whereupon he turned to me, and said, "You will pardon me, for I am commanded away in haste.
Seite 203 - This fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature,1 and the producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Solomon's House, or, the College of the Six Days
Seite 266 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light. We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call depredators.
Seite 249 - ... inheritance. I have read in a book of one of your men, of a feigned commonwealth, where the married couple are permitted, before they contract, to see one another naked. This they dislike : for they think it a scorn to give a refusal after so familiar knowledge : but because of many hidden defects in men and women's bodies, they have a more civil way : for they have near every town a couple of pools, (which they call Adam and Eve's pools,) where it is permitted to one of the friends of the man,...
Seite xliii - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.