Ideal Empires and Republics: Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the SunWm. H. Wise & Company, 1901 - 317 pages |
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Page 263 - 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. " The preparations and instruments are these. We have
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Page 271 - so directed, and report them. These we call inoculators. " Lastly, we have three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into greater observations, axioms, and ^ aphorisms. These we call interpreters of Nature. 7
Page 245 - And here he paused, and a messenger came, and called him forth from us. So this was all that passed in that conference. The next day, the same governor came again to us, immediately after dinner, and excused himself, saying,
Page 236 - That we had some little store of merchandise, which if it pleased them to deal for, it might supply our wants, without being chargeable unto them." We offered some reward in pistolets unto the servant, and a piece of crimson
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Page 55 - different wills become more active in proportion as they are concentrated. Thus the general will is always the weakest, the corporate will has the second rank, and the particular will the first of all ; so that in the government each member is, firstly, himself, next a magistrate, and then a citizen — a gradation directly opposed
Page 190 - to a divine one, if they can purchase one that is very extraordinary, especially if it be of that sort of stones that is then in greatest request; for the same sort is not at all times universally of the same value; nor will men buy it unless it be dismounted and taken out of the gold; the
Page 160 - I was ever there. For though they from one such accident made themselves masters of all the good inventions that were among us; yet I believe it would be long before we should learn or put in practice any of the good institutions that are among them. And this is the