 | Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers - 1911 - 338 pages
...This done, the multitude so united in one Person, is called a Commonwealth. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently)...owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence." f — Summary of Hobbes' Ethics. — Thus the primitive Egoism, with which Hobbes starts, ends in the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1911 - 578 pages
...Over all runs the legend Non est potestas super terrain quae comparetur ei. This is the design ' of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that mortal God,' whose generation and power Hobbes sets out to describe. The figure of the leviathan dominates the whole... | |
 | 1913 - 270 pages
...reverently, of that " moral god " to which we owe under the " immortal God " our peace and defense. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he has the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1919 - 888 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a Commonwealth, in Latin, Civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god to which we owe under immortal God, our peace and defence." Seldom has the "generation' ' of an Absolute been so clearly... | |
 | Ramiro de Maeztu - 1916 - 300 pages
...their wills, every one to his will, and their judgments, to his judgtaent." " This is the generation of that great '- leviathan,' or rather, to speak more...under the ' immortal God ' our peace and defence." All the political theories of the modern epoch express the tendency to conceive the State as a unity... | |
 | Hector James Wright Hetherington, John Henry Muirhead - 1918 - 328 pages
...founder of the f^^s State was the cause of the greatest of goods." 1 To Hobbes it was " that mortall God to which we owe under the Immortal God our peace and defence" ;* to Hegel " the footstep of God in the world." 3 But phrases like these, particularly in a modern... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a "commonwealth," in Latin civitas. This is the generation of fire and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough...carry'd on, And still be doing, never done; As if Rel defense. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the... | |
 | Joseph Rickaby - 1919 - 404 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a commonwealth, in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great Leviathan, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to whom we owe under the immortal God our peace and defence." (Leviathan, c. xvii.) This idea of all the... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pages
...Over all runs the legend Non est potestas super terram quae compar etur ei. This is the design "of that great Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that mortal God," whose generation and power Hobbes sets out to describe. The figure of the leviathan dominates the whole... | |
 | Arthur Ritchie Lord - 1921 - 352 pages
...multitude so united in one person is called a " commonwealth ", in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great " leviathan ", or rather, to speak more...under the " immortal God ", our peace and defence.' This passage (ch. xvii) puts Hobbes' use of the idea of Contract before us quite clearly. It is to... | |
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This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God, 
