The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volume 3C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... last resort was always meant by legislators to be held in balance among all three . And it will be an eter- nal rule in politicks among every free peo- ple , that there is a balance of power to be carefully held by every state within it ...
... last resort was always meant by legislators to be held in balance among all three . And it will be an eter- nal rule in politicks among every free peo- ple , that there is a balance of power to be carefully held by every state within it ...
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... last a- mong the causes , that ruined their state : and the frequent murders of their gene- rals , which Diodorus tells us was grown to an established cuftom among them , may be another inftance , that tyranny is not confined to numbers ...
... last a- mong the causes , that ruined their state : and the frequent murders of their gene- rals , which Diodorus tells us was grown to an established cuftom among them , may be another inftance , that tyranny is not confined to numbers ...
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... last circumstance , as cafes have lately stood , may perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advan- ced , feveral conclufions may be drawn : First , That a mixed government par- taking of the known forms received in the ...
... last circumstance , as cafes have lately stood , may perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advan- ced , feveral conclufions may be drawn : First , That a mixed government par- taking of the known forms received in the ...
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... last infallibly of a fingle per- fon : for , whichever of the three divifi- ons in a state is upon the fcramble for more power than its own , ( as one or other of them generally is ) unless due care be taken by the other two , upon ...
... last infallibly of a fingle per- fon : for , whichever of the three divifi- ons in a state is upon the fcramble for more power than its own , ( as one or other of them generally is ) unless due care be taken by the other two , upon ...
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... last famous ge- neral of Athens , are about 1 30 years : af- ter which they were fubdued and infulted by Alexander's captains , and continued * Herodot . lib . 1 . under under feveral revolutions a small truckling state , of no 20 ...
... last famous ge- neral of Athens , are about 1 30 years : af- ter which they were fubdued and infulted by Alexander's captains , and continued * Herodot . lib . 1 . under under feveral revolutions a small truckling state , of no 20 ...
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