 | A. P. Martinich - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 430 pages
...infer that a particular man has more liberty or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there than in Constantinople. Whether a Commonwealth be monarchical, or popular, the freedom is still the same."6 Sometimes "Of Tacitus" intermixes un-Hobbesian and traditional Hobbesian themes, as when he... | |
 | Fergus Millar - History - 2002 - 220 pages
...infer, that a particular man has more liberty, or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there, than in Constantinople. Whether a commonwealth be...monarchical, or popular, the freedom is still the same. (II. 21.8) In the next paragraph, Hobbes sets out to argue that ancient political thought, both Greek... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - History - 2002 - 518 pages
...which he had presented it in the form of a cautionary tal about the origins of the English civil war: It is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the specious name of Libertie ... And when the same errour is confirmed by the authority of men in reput tion for their... | |
 | Engin F Isin, Bryan S Turner - Political Science - 2002 - 360 pages
...seats of representation, but by the capacity of the sovereign to secure and protect those freedoms: 'whether a commonwealth be monarchical, or popular, the freedom is still the same' (Hobbes, [1651] 1991: 149-50; cf. Hobbes, [1647] 1998: 121). Of course, Hobbes' contemporaries viewed... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - History - 2002 - 664 pages
...learning in the politics, is not the liberty of particular men, but the liberty of the commonwealth. Whether a commonwealth be monarchical or popular, the freedom is still the same [page no]. Here I find Mr. Hobbes is much mistaken. For the liberty of the Athenians and Romans was... | |
 | Matthew H. Kramer - Philosophy - 2003 - 506 pages
...infer, that a particular man has more liberty, or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there, than in Constantinople. Whether a commonwealth be...monarchical, or popular, the freedom is still the same.' 10 Only the laconic phrase 'or immunity from the *1 Skinner, 'Idea', 196; Skinner, 'Paradoxes', 230-1;... | |
 | Jonathan Hill - History - 2004 - 222 pages
...his head with the crown upon it.' OIJ\ERCBOMWEU, DURING CHAR1.ES I'S TRIM. FAITH IN THE AGE OF REASON 'It is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the specious name oj Libertie.' THOMAS HOBBES. LFMATIIAX II. CM Mil HI!] the idea had taken hold that the king rules... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...infer that a particular man has more liberty or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there than in Constantinople. Whether a commonwealth be...monarchical or popular, the freedom is still the same. 9. But it is an easy thing for men to be deceived by the specious name of liberty and (for want of... | |
 | Thomas Festa - Education - 2006 - 254 pages
...Literature unleashes the illusion that the condition of tumult is natural under a monarch. Knowing that "it is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the specious name of Libertie; and for want of Judgement to distinguish, mistake that for their Private Inheritance, and... | |
 | Mark Stephen Jendrysik - History - 2007 - 206 pages
...An improper understanding of the limited and provisional nature of liberty produced civil conflict. It is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the specious name of Libertie; and for want of judgment to distinguish, mistake that for their private Inheritance, and... | |
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There is written on the turrets of the city of Lucca in great characters at this day, the word libertas; yet no man can thence infer that a particular man has more liberty or immunity from the service of the commonwealth there than in Constantinople.... 
