Aristotle's Ethics and Politics: PoliticsA. Strahan, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1797 |
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Side 28 - ... origin, some natures are formed to command, and others to obey ; the kinds of government and subjection varying with the differences of their objects, but all equally useful for their respective ends ; and those kinds the most excellent, from which the most excellent consequences ensue. In compositions endowed with life, it is the province of mind to command, and of matter to obey. Man consists of soul and body, and in all men rightly constituted, the soul commands the body ; though some men...
Side 129 - From the intermediate fituation of St. Marino between the dominions of Tufcany and thofe of the Pope, its territory is continually infefted by vifits from thofe...
Side 2 - And thus that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world.
Side 134 - Such infipid and fuch mercenary aflemblies are fometimes enlivened by the jokes of the buffoon; the itnprovtfatore fometimes difplays in them the powers of his memory rather than the elegance of his fancy ; and every entertainment in Italy, whether gay or ferious, is always feafoned with mufic ; but chiefly that foft voluptuous mufic which was banifhed by Lycurgus, profcribed by Plato, and prohibited by other legiflators/ under fevere penalties, as unfriendly to virtue and deftrudive of manhood.
Side 41 - All other moveable goods, he says, are of so consumable a nature that the wealth which consists in them cannot be much depended on, and a nation which abounds in them one year may, without any exportation, but merely by their own waste and extravagance, be in great want of them the next. Money, on the contrary, is a steady friend, which, though it may travel about from hand to hand, yet if it can be kept from going out of the country, is not very liable to be wasted and consumed.
Side 132 - We exprefled our unwillingnefs to give him the trouble of again afcending the hill ; but of this trouble the deeply-wrinkled mountaineer made light, and we yielded to his propofal with only apparent reluctance ; fince, to the indelicacy of introducing ourfelves, we preferred the introduction of a man whom we had even cafually met * Afs.
Side 127 - The diftance from Rimini to the Borgo, or fuburbs of St. • Marino, for the citta, or city, ftands half a mile higher on the hill, is computed at only ten Italian miles. But the badnefs of the weather and of the roads would have increafed the tedioufnefs of our fatiguing journey, had not our fancies been amufcd by the...
Side 132 - Germans in modern times, their temperance may fairly be afcribed to the indolent monotony of their liftlefs lives ; which, being never exhaufted by fatigue, can never be gladdened by repofe ; and being never agitated by the terrors of danger, can never be tranfported by the joys of deliverance. From thefe airy fpeculations, by which we...
Side 391 - ... yet Tacitus treats this notion of a mixed government, formed out of them all, and partaking of the advantages of each, as a visionary whim, and one that, if effected, could never be lasting or secure.
Side 29 - ... for toil and drudgery, but capable of sustaining honourably the offices of war and peace. This, however, holds not universally ; for a servile mind is often lodged in a graceful person ; and we have often found bodies formed for servitude, animated by the souls of freemen. Yet the distinction itself is not frivolous ; for were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendour of beauty which beams from the statues of the gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally...