| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...whatever numbers; which, notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill-manners, as well as unreasonable... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...too much in the familiar style to be proper in a grave treatise. 2. 8ufiply nmrds that are wanting. " Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar :" it should have been, " as much as the state of a savage is... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...familiar style to be proper in a. grave treatise. 2. Supply words that are vVcmcirig. " Arbitrary poorer I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage- is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar :" it should have been, " as much as the sttete of a savage is... | |
| Francis Plowden - 1805 - 496 pages
...whatever numbers ; which, notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others, have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself ; as much as a savage is in a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...stj le to be proper in a grave treatise. Dd 2 2. fiuppfy nvrds that are wanting. " Arbitrary power f look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a Jiappier state of life, than a slave at the oar:" it should have been, " as much as the state of a... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1809 - 346 pages
...too much in the familiar style to be proper in a grave treatise. 2. Supply words that are wanting. " Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, a's much as a savuge is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar:" it should have been, "as... | |
| Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 pages
...expressions, and all words and phrases, not adapted to our meaning. 1. Sufifily such words as are wanting. u Arbitrary power I look upon, as a greater evil, than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar." 1 view arbitrary power, as a greater evil than anarchy itself,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...whatever numbers ; which, notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...whatever numbers ; which, notwithstanding all that -Hobbes, Filmer, and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
| 1814 - 630 pages
...whatever numbers; which, notwithstanding all that Hobbes, Filmer, and others have said to its advantage, I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier state of life, than a slave at the oar. It is reckoned ill-manners, as well as unreasonable,... | |
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