Prose Works of John MiltonJ.B. Alden, 1885 - 486 pages |
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... Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles of reason , lays down : by consequence , therefore , that which is good and agreeable to monarchy will appear soonest to be so , by being good and agree- able to the true ...
... Aristotle , both in his Ethics and Politics , from the principles of reason , lays down : by consequence , therefore , that which is good and agreeable to monarchy will appear soonest to be so , by being good and agree- able to the true ...
Page 48
... Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use judgment , is no trans- gression , but an enriching of art : and , lastly , what king or knight before the Conquest might be cho ...
... Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept , or nature to be followed , which in them that know art , and use judgment , is no trans- gression , but an enriching of art : and , lastly , what king or knight before the Conquest might be cho ...
Page 176
... Aristotle , therefore , whom we commonly allow for one of the best interpreters of nature and morali- ty , writes in the fourth of his Politics , chap . x . that " monarchy unaccountable is the worst sort of tyr- anny , and least of all ...
... Aristotle , therefore , whom we commonly allow for one of the best interpreters of nature and morali- ty , writes in the fourth of his Politics , chap . x . that " monarchy unaccountable is the worst sort of tyr- anny , and least of all ...
Page 197
... Aristotle , in his Politics , hath mentioned that special craft among twelve other tyrannical soph- isms . Neither want we examples : Andronicus Comnenus , the Byzantine emperor , though a most cruel tyrant , is reported by Nicetas to ...
... Aristotle , in his Politics , hath mentioned that special craft among twelve other tyrannical soph- isms . Neither want we examples : Andronicus Comnenus , the Byzantine emperor , though a most cruel tyrant , is reported by Nicetas to ...
Page 266
... of govern- ment in which the law is made lord and master , and no scope given to any man to tyrannize over the laws . Aristotle is of the same opinion in his Politics ; and so is Cicero in his book De 266 FROM A DEFENCE OF.
... of govern- ment in which the law is made lord and master , and no scope given to any man to tyrannize over the laws . Aristotle is of the same opinion in his Politics ; and so is Cicero in his book De 266 FROM A DEFENCE OF.
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