Thomas Sidney Eds (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Illustrated. 619pp. 8vo, cloth. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1964. A very good copy in a good tattered dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Hardcover, very good+ to near fine, no dustjacket. Dust darkening on top edge of textblock, 2 previous owner's signatures (class of 1945) , endpapers tanned, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Yearbook; year book; Ivory League; school.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. XLVI, 606 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben, Knicke im Buchrücken, Buchrücken leicht ausgeblichen, Flecken auf Vorderschnitt, Fußschnitt angeschmutzt, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, sonst guter Zustand / binding slightly rubbed, creases on spine, spine slightly faded, stains on fore-edge, bottom edge soiled, pencil annotation on dirt title, otherwise good condition. - CONTENTS FOREWORD, BIBLIOGRAPHY, EDITORS NOTE, CHAPTER ONE Section 1. The Introduction. Section 2. The common notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. SECTION 3. Implicit Faith belongs to Fools, and Truth is comprehended by examining Principles. SECTION 4. The Rights of particular Nations cannot subsist, if general Principles contrary to them are received as true. SECTION 5. To depend upon the will of a man is slavery. SECTION 6. God leaves to man the choice of forms in Government; and those who constitute one form may abrogate it. SECTION 7. Abraham and the Patriarchs were not Kings. SECTION 8. Nimrod was the first King during the life of Cush, Ham , Shem, and Noah. SECTION 9. The Power of a Father belongs only to a Father. SECTION 10. Such as enter into Society, must in some degree diminish their Liberty. SECTION 11. No man comes to command many, unless by consent, or by force. SECTION 12. The pretended paternal Right is divisible or indivisible: if divisible, 'tis extinguished; if indivisible, universal. SECTION 13. There was no shadow of a paternal Kingdom amongst the Hebrews, nor precept for it. SECTION 14. If the paternal Right bad included Dominion, and was to be transferid to a single Heir, it must perish if he were not known; and could be applied to no other person. Section 15.] Section 16. The Antients chose those to be Kings, who excell'd in the Virtues that are most beneficial to Civil Societies. SECTION 17. God having given the Government of the World to no one man, nor declared how it should be divided, left it to the will of man. Section 18. If a right of Dominion were esteemed hereditary according to the Law of Nature, a multitude of destructive and inextricable Controversies would thereupon arise. Section 19. Kings cannot confer the Right of Father upon Princes, nor Princes upon Kings. SECTION 20. All just Magistratical Power is from the People. CHAPTER T W O SECTION i. That 'tis natural for Nations to govern, or to chuse Governors; and that Virtue only gives a natural preference of one man above another, or reason why one should be chosen rather than another. SECTION 2. Every man that hath Children, hath the right of a Father, and is capable of preferment in a Society composed of many. Section 3. Government is not instituted for the good of the Governor, but of the Governed; and Power is not an advantage, but a burden. Section 4. The paternal Right devolves to, and is inherited by all the Children. SECTION 5. Free men join together, and frame greater or lesser Societies, and give such forms to them as best pleases themselves. Section 6. They who have a right of cbusing a King, have the right of making a King. ION 7 7 Laws of every Nation are the measure of magistratical Power. ECTION 8. There is no natural propensity in man or beast to Monarchy- SECTION 9- The Government instituted by God over the Israelites was Aristocratical. Section 10. Aristotle was not simply for Monarchy, or against Popular Government, but approved or disapproved of either according to circumstances. Section 11 Liberty produceth Virtue, Order and Stability: Slavery is accompanied with Vice, Weakness and Misery. Section 12. The Glory, Virtue and Power of the Romans, began and ended with their Liberty. SECTION 13. There is no disorder or prejudice in changing the name or number of Magistrates, whilst the root and principle of their Power continues intire. Section 14. No Sedition was hurtful to Rome, till through their prosperity some men gained a Power above the Laws. SECTION 15. The Empire of Rome perpetually decay'd, when it fell into the hands of one man. SECTION 16. The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy. SECTION 17. Good Governments admit of changes in the Superstructures, whilst the Foundations remain unchangeable. SECTION 18. Xenophon in blaming the disorders of Democracies, favours Aristocracies, not Monarchies. Section 19. That corruption and venality which is natural to Courts, is seldom found in Popular Governments. Section 20. Man's natural love to Liberty is temper'd by Reason, which originally is his nature. Section 21. Mixed and Popular Governments preserve Peace, and manage Wars better than Absolute Monarchies. Section 22. Commonwealths seek Peace or War, according to the variety of their Constitutions. SECTION 23. That is the best Government, which provides best for ^tha^x^ P0Pular Governments are less subject to Civil disorders them Monarrbies, manage them more ably, and more easily recover out of Section 25. Courts are more subject to venality and corruption than Popular Governments. SECTION 26. Civil Tumults and Wars are not the greatest evils that befal Nations. SECTION 27. The mischiefs and cruelties proceeding from Tyranny, are greater than any that can come from popular or mixed Governments. SECTION 28. Men living under popular or mixed Governments, are more careful of the publick Good, than in Absolute Monarchies. SECTION 29. There is no assurance that the distempers of a State shall be cured by the wisdom of a Prince. SECTION 30. A Monarchy cannot be well regulated, unless the Powers of the Monarch are limited by Law. SECTION 31. The Liberties of Nations are from God and Nature, not from Kings. SECTION 32. The Contracts made between Magistrates and the Nations th.…