| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...resources, such as arts, commerce, money, walls : ambition prevailed among the citizens without hopes of improving their fortune ; they had natural sentiments...tie of a son, husband, or father ; and chastity was stript even of modesty and shame. This was the road that led Sparta to grandeur and glory ; and so... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...Montesquieu :—" Lycurgus, by blending theft with the spirit of justice, the hardest servitude with the excess of liberty, the most rigid sentiments with...reconstruct them on the basis of a metaphysical equality. Such a pretence may serve an occasional purpose—be the convenient means of enlisting the suffrages... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1873 - 886 pages
...resources, such as arts, commerce, money, walls : ambition prevailed among the citizens without hopes of improving their fortune ; they had natural sentiments without the tie of a eon, husband, father ; and chastity was stripped even of modesty 'and shame. This was the road that... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - State, The - 1899 - 492 pages
...resources, such as arts, commerce, money, and walls ; ambition prevailed among the citizens without hopes of improving their fortune ; they had natural sentiments...and chastity was stripped even of modesty and shame. This was the road that led Sparta to grandeur and glory ; and so infallible were these institutions,... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...resources, such as arts, commerce, money, and walls ; ambition prevailed among the citizens without hopes of improving their fortune ; they had natural sentiments...and chastity was stripped even of modesty and shame. This was the road that led Spjrtajo grandeur and glory -I and so infallible were these institutions,... | |
| 1838 - 534 pages
...time, all the landed property in the Republic was engrossed by a few individuals, of whom two fifths were women. The genius of this memorable and too often...reconstruct them on the basis of a metaphysical equality. Such a pretence may serve an occasional purpose — be the convenient means of enlisting the suffrages... | |
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