 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
..."immunity from the service of the commonwealth," it does not depend on any particular form of rule. "Whether a commonwealth be monarchical or popular, the freedom is still the same."4 In virtue of their contrasting accounts of liberty, the two traditions assess political institutions... | |
 | A. A. M. Kinneging - History - 1997 - 380 pages
...in the ancients whatever he needed or wanted; most of all himself Schiege? 1. Readings of antiquity 'But it is an easy thing. for men to be deceived. by the specious name of liberty; and for want of judgement to distinguish. mistake that for their private inheritance. and birth-right. which is the... | |
 | Richard G. Stevens - History - 1997 - 410 pages
...case that Hobbes tells us in chapter 21 that there is no difference between one regime and another: "Whether a commonwealth be monarchical, or popular, the freedom is still the same."8 Men are just as free in one regime as in another. And how free is that? The answer is, not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | T. R. Langley - Art - 2001 - 264 pages
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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.... 
