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The Economic Interpretation of History - Page 50
by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1924 - 166 pages
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States ..., Volume 4

John Adams - 1851 - 666 pages
...a city that has little or no land, and whose revenue is in trade,) as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire. If one man be sole landlord of a territory, or overbalance the people — for example, three parts...
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Séances et travaux de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques, compte ...

Académie des sciences morales et politiques (France) - 1867 - 490 pages
...city « that bas littleor no land, and whose revenue is in trade) « as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in « land, such is the nature of the Empire. » Cette vérité est confirmée par l'histoire à un double point de vue. D'abord l'inégalité dans...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...in a city that has little or no land, and whose revenue is in trade) as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire. If one man be sole landlord of a territory, or overbalance the people, for example, three parts in...
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The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Years ...

Edward Jenks - 1890 - 180 pages
...doctrine shortly afterwards formally laid down by Harrington, that "such as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire6." Whatever we may think of the morality of the proceeding, its success is unquestioned. There...
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The Economic Foundations of Society

Achille Loria - 1899 - 414 pages
...economic conditions. " Dominion is property," he wrote in his Oceana, "as is the proportion or balance of Dominion or Property in Land, such is the nature of the Empire. If one Man be the sole Landlord of a Territory, or overbalance the People, ... he is Grand Signior....
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The Economic Interpretation of History

Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1902 - 184 pages
...political or social conditions to be found in the literature of earlier centuries. .Jrlarringt.on, for instance, in his Oceana, tells us that the form...Empire is Absolute Monarchy. If the Few or a Nobility overbalance the people, it makes the Gothic ballance and the Empire is mixed Monarchy (as in Spain...
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Harrington and His Oceans: a Study of a 17th Century Utopia and Its ...

Hugh Francis Russell-Smith - 1914 - 244 pages
...this atmosphere, then, Harrington arrived at his first proposition, "as is the proportion or balance of Dominion or Property in Land, such is the nature of the Empire." When a single person is sole proprietor of a country's land, the government will be monarchical; when...
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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pages
...in a city that has little or no land, and whose revenue is in trade) as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire. If one man be sole landlord of a territory, or overbalance the people, for example, three parts in...
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The Economic Basis of Politics

Charles Austin Beard - 1922 - 112 pages
...a city that has little or no land and whose revenue is in trade) as is the proportion or balance or dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the empire. If one man be sole landlord or own three parts in four, the state is an absolute monarchy. If a few...
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Political Portraits

Charles Whibley - 1923 - 312 pages
...the dogmas, which he preached with a tireless resolution, was that, ' as is the proportion or balance of dominion or property in land, such is the nature of the Empire.' This harmony or balance he believed to be essential to the welfare of the State. If it did not exist,...
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