 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1784 - 564 Seiten
...admiration of the governments of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...proper employment of a free citizen is, to be either incessantly assembled in the forum, or preparing for war. Being valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
 | 1821 - 444 Seiten
...admiration of the governments of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...the governments of Sparta and Rome, as the only ones tit for us to imitate. In their opinions, the only proper employment of a free citizen is, to be either... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1826 - 326 Seiten
...admiration of the governments of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...proper employment of a free citizen is, to be either incessantly assembled in the forum, or preparing for war. Seing valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - 1838 - 628 Seiten
...of the governments of an242 cient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...proper employment of a free citizen is, to be either incessantly assembled in the forum, or preparing for war. Being valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1853 - 438 Seiten
...Social Contract, chap. xv. of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...proper employment of a free citizen is to be either incessantly assembled in the forum, or preparing for war. Being valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - 1853 - 416 Seiten
...Social Contract, chap. Xv. of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern...times, have cried up the governments of Sparta and Eome, as the only ones fit for us to imitate. In their opinions, the only proper employment of a free... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - 1996 - 422 Seiten
...desire of presenting striking contrasts to what they call degenerate manners of our modern times, [who] have cried up the governments of Sparta and Rome, as the only ones fit for us to imitate."70 Like Hobbes before him and David Hume, his famous Scottish contemporary,71 Lolme found... | |
 | David Wootton - 1994 - 518 Seiten
...comparing ancient and modern liberty,7 the Genevan lawyer Jean Louis de Lolme had responded to those who "cried up the governments of Sparta and Rome, as the only ones fit for us to imitate" by defending the English constitution on the grounds that it embodied the only "Liberty" worth having... | |
 | Peter McNamara - 1999 - 278 Seiten
...prosaic liberty of modern England against the admirers of classical republicanism, who presumed that "the only proper employment of a free Citizen is, to be either incessantly assembled in the forum or preparing for war.— Being valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
 | 1822 - 276 Seiten
...— Rollin ex Diod. Sic. 479. In their opinions, (the admirers of the government of Sparta and Rome,) the only proper employment of a free citizen is to be either incessantly assembled in the forum, or preparing for war. Being valiant, inured to hardships, inflamed... | |
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In the same manner, certain writers of the present age. misled by their inconsiderate admiration of the governments of ancient times, and perhaps also by a desire of presenting lively contrasts to what they call the degenerate manners of our modern times,... 