This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 edition. Excerpt: ...was worth enough, my Gentleman would have it, that one man in the compafs of fifty years might pur chafe the whole Land, tho that Country was much larger than this: and yet where, if the People had us'd Mony, they would have us'd Trade, and ufing both, fuch a thing, thro the ftraitnefs of the Territory, might ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 edition. Excerpt: ...was worth enough, my Gentleman would have it, that one man in the compafs of fifty years might pur chafe the whole Land, tho that Country was much larger than this: and yet where, if the People had us'd Mony, they would have us'd Trade, and ufing both, fuch a thing, thro the ftraitnefs of the Territory, might have happen'd, he will not conceive the like to have bin poflible. No, tho he has an example of it in LySander, who by the fpoil of Athens ruin'd the Agrarian, firft by the overbalance that a man's Mony came to hold to his Lot; then by eating out the Lots themfelves, and in thofe the Equality of the Commonwealth. But thefe things he interprets pleafantly, as if the Vow of voluntary Poverty (fo he calls it) being broken the Commonwealth, like a forfworn Wretch, had gon and hang d her felf: a Phanfy too rank, I doubt, of the Cloyfter, to be good at this work. BUT wheras Plutarch, upon the narrownefs of thefe Lots (which had they bin larger, muft have made the Citizens fewer than thirty thoufand, and fo unable to defend the Commonwealth) and ufe of this fame old and rufty Iron inftead of Mony, obferves flut Lycur xt came by this means to pafs that there was neither a fi?ie Oratory Fortuneteller, Baud, nor Goldfmith to be found in Lacedemon; our Confiderer profeffes, THAT it is to him asfirange as any thing in Hi/lory, that LycurGus fhould find credit enough to fettle a Government, which carry"dalong with it fo much want and hard/hip to particular men, that the total abfence of Government could fearce have put them into a worfe condition; the Laws that he made prohibiting the ufe of thofe things, itohich to injoy with fecurity, is that only to other men that makes the Toke of Laws fupportable. HERE HERE he is no Monk again; I would afk him no...
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Add this copy of The Oceana, Volume 1 to cart. $59.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
