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" And in him consisteth the essence of the commonwealth; which, to define it, is "one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the author, to the end he may use the strength and means... "
The Elements of Jurisprudence - Page 45
by Thomas Erskine Holland - 1906 - 443 pages
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...the commonwealth ; which (to define it) is " one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence." And he that carrieth this person, is called Sovereign, and said to have sovereign power ; and every...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the commonwealth ; which (to define it) is " one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence." And he that carrieth this person, is called Sovereign, and said to have sovereign power ; and every...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 3; Volume 8

1831 - 564 pages
...commonwealth, which (to define it) is one person of whose acts a great multitude by mutual cuvenants one with another have made themselves every one the author, to the end that lie may use the strength and means of them all, a* he shall think expedient for the peace and...
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The Constitution of Society: As Designed by God

Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...commonwealth ; which, to define it, is, one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenant, one with another, have made themselves every one the author; to the end he may use the strength and meaus of them all, as he shall think expedient for their peace and common defence. — (Hobbes' Commonwealth.)...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...of the commonwealth ; which (to define it) is one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence." It will readily be inferred, even from tins short extract, that the effect of writers of this class,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...of the commonwealth ; which (to define it) is one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence." It will readily be inferred, even from this short extract, that the effect of writers of this class,...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...commonwealth ; which, to define it, is one weaiti°mmon per son, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence. sovereign, and And he that carrieth this person, is called subject, what. j • ii SOVEREIGN, and said...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...commonwealth ; which, to define it, is one wealth."1"1°" person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...think expedient, for their peace and common defence. Sovereign, and And he that carrieth this person, is called suhject, what. i • ji SOVEREIGN, and said...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 29

1841 - 412 pages
...; which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants with one another, have made themselves every one the author,...think expedient, for their peace and common defence." — Vol. III. pp. 153, 157, 158. We do not suppose it was for the promulgation of a doctrine so disagreeable...
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A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 1

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 508 pages
...defence.' He proceeds to define a commonwealth as ' one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every...expedient for their peace and common defence.' Hobbes, therefore, supposes the political union to be founded on a mutual compact of all, or of a majority,...
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