A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 1J. W. Parker and Son, 1852 - Political science |
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... Writers of the most dissimilar schools of philosophy , historians , and practical men , as well as the general public , seem to concur in thinking that the principles of political science are ill - ascertained , and that the maxims of ...
... Writers of the most dissimilar schools of philosophy , historians , and practical men , as well as the general public , seem to concur in thinking that the principles of political science are ill - ascertained , and that the maxims of ...
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... writers on logic , and is merely concerned with their application to politics . It makes no claim to novelty or invention ; but it seeks only to extend to politics those methods of observation and reasoning which experience has proved ...
... writers on logic , and is merely concerned with their application to politics . It makes no claim to novelty or invention ; but it seeks only to extend to politics those methods of observation and reasoning which experience has proved ...
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... writers on the matter of politics ; it will be no part of our object to establish a dogmatic political system . ( 1 ) Much of the contents of the ensuing treatise has , indeed , been the subject of discussion by writers on politics ...
... writers on the matter of politics ; it will be no part of our object to establish a dogmatic political system . ( 1 ) Much of the contents of the ensuing treatise has , indeed , been the subject of discussion by writers on politics ...
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... writers on jurisprudence , by whom the requisite explanations have been given . ( 2 ) The entire subject - matter of politics is involved in the idea of a sovereign government , together with the independent com- munity over which it ...
... writers on jurisprudence , by whom the requisite explanations have been given . ( 2 ) The entire subject - matter of politics is involved in the idea of a sovereign government , together with the independent com- munity over which it ...
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... several families is a necessary condi- tion for division of labour , and the first effect of political society . §3 Speculative writers on politics have attached some import- ance 14 [ CHAP . II . ON THE PROVINCE OF POLITICS .
... several families is a necessary condi- tion for division of labour , and the first effect of political society . §3 Speculative writers on politics have attached some import- ance 14 [ CHAP . II . ON THE PROVINCE OF POLITICS .
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Page 426 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 408 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 428 - The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties and a greater security against any that are not of it.
Page 34 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Page 166 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain.
Page 273 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 18 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 157 - Neither is my meaning, as was spoken of Socrates, to call philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth ; that is, to leave natural philosophy aside, and to apply knowledge only to manners and policy. But as both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of man...
Page 428 - Whosoever, therefore, out of a state of Nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into society to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth.
Page 344 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.