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" Montesquieu, what Homer has been to the didactic writers on epic poetry. As the latter have considered the work of the immortal Bard, as the perfect model from which the principles and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works... "
Popular Government: Four Essays - Page 199
by Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 261 pages
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged; so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...standard, or to use his own expression, as the mirror of politicalliberty; and to have delivered, in the form of elementary truths, the several characteristic...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which...
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Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of ..., Volume 2

Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1837 - 642 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged ; so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...truths, the several characteristic principles of that system ". But, sir, in this " mirror " of that great author he saw the partial blending of the separate...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...and rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged: so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which...
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The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the ..., Volume 1

Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from...
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The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 772 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from...
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The Federalist: a Collection of Essays Written in Favor of the New ..., Volume 1

United States - 1864 - 786 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from...
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a ...

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1864 - 848 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure then not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from which...
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Federalist: a Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution ...

1865 - 696 pages
...rules of the epic art were to be drawn, and by which all similar works were to be judged : so this great political critic appears to have viewed the...characteristic principles of that particular system. That we may be sure, then, not to mistake his meaning in this case, let us recur to the source from...
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