 With no small content I read Hobbes' book De Give, and his Leviathan, about the rights of sovereignty, which no man, that I know, hath so amply and judiciously handled : I consent with him about the rights of exercising government, but I cannot agree...  The Theory of the Divine Right of Kings - Page 281by John Neville Figgis - 1896 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Masson - 1877 - 668 pages
...about " the rights of Sovereignty, which no man that I know hath " so amply and judiciously handled. I consent with him " about the rights of exercising...yet mislike his foundation ; " but so it is. His jus natures and his regnum institutivum will " not down with me." After some argument with Hobbes, he passes... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 664 pages
...about " the rights of Sovereignty, which no man that I know hath " so amply and judiciously handled. I consent with him " about the rights of exercising...building and yet mislike his foundation ; " but so it is. tlisjiis natures and his regnum institutivum will " not down with me." After some argument with Hobbes,... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 676 pages
...about " the rights of Sovereignty, which no man that I know hath " so amply and judiciously handled. I consent with him "about the rights of exercising...building and yet mislike his foundation ; " but so it is. Hisy«s natures and his regnum instltutivum will " not down with me." After some argument with Hobbes,... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 pages
...contains. ' With no small content,' he said, ' I read Mr. Hobbes's book De Cive and his Leviathan. I consent with him about the rights of exercising...but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it.' 3 That the doctrines propounded by Hobbes were anathema to many excellent and serious-minded persons... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - 1920 - 332 pages
...element of contract upon which the great thinker depended. "I consent with him," said Filmer of Hobbes, "about the Rights of exercising Government, but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it." That power must be absolute, Filmer, like Hobbes, has no manner of doubt; but his method of proof is... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1922 - 328 pages
...about the Rights of Sovereignty, which no man, that I know, hath so amply and judiciously handled : I consent with him about the Rights of exercising...but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it." 1 Again : " We do but flatter ourselves, if we hope ever to be governed without an Arbitrary Power.... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - 1925 - 286 pages
...said Filmer of Hobbes, " about the 1 Fox-Bourne, op. cit. Letter from Lady Masham t« Jean le Clerc. Rights of exercising Government, but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it." That power must be absolute, Filmer, like Hobbes, has no manner of doubt; but his method of proof is... | |
 | James Henderson Burns, Mark Goldie - 1991 - 818 pages
...p. 131). Filmer, in the passage in which he praised Hobbes' doctrine of sovereignty, went on to say, 'I consent with him about the rights of exercising...government, but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it' (1949, p. 239; cf. Hyde 1676, p. 52; Falkner 1679, pp. 407-9). With Aristotle and Aquinas, the royalists... | |
 | Christopher W. Morris - 1999 - 262 pages
...about the rights of sovereignty, which no man, that I know, hath so amply and judiciously handled: I consent with him about the rights of exercising...government, but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it."17 Filmer objected to the generation of a commonwealth from a state of nature by individuals covenanting... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - 1999 - 430 pages
..."no man that I know, has so amply and judiciously handled [this topic]. I consent with him [Hobbes] about the rights of exercising government, but I cannot agree to his means of acquiring it."26 Since the basics of Hobbes's political theory have already been discussed, it is appropriate... | |
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