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. 1751 edition. Excerpt: ... rule to him, and the beft men, that is fuch as are moft like to himfelf, made to be his Plat, de leg. affiftants, becaufe, fay they, " lex eft mens fine affectu, & quafi Arift. polit. " deus j" whereas the beft of men have their affections and pafllons, and are fubject to be mifled by them: which fhews, that ...
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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. 1751 edition. Excerpt: ... rule to him, and the beft men, that is fuch as are moft like to himfelf, made to be his Plat, de leg. affiftants, becaufe, fay they, " lex eft mens fine affectu, & quafi Arift. polit. " deus j" whereas the beft of men have their affections and pafllons, and are fubject to be mifled by them: which fhews, that as the monarch is not for himfelf, nor by himfelf, he does not give, but receive power, nor admit others to the participation of it, but is by them admitted to what he has. Whereupon they conclude, that to prefer the abfolute power of a man, as in thofe governments which they call " barbarorum regna," before the regular government of kings juftly exercifmg a power inftituted by law, and directed to the public good, is to chufe rather to be fubjedt to the luft of a beaft, than to be governed by a God. And becaufe fuch a choice can only be made by a beaft, I leave our author to find a defcription of himfelf in their books, which he fo often cites. But if Ariftotle deferve credit, the princes who reign for themfelves and not for the people, preferring their own pleafure or profit before the public, become tyrants which, in his language, is, enemies to God and man. On this account Boccalini introduces the princes of Europe raifmg a mutiny againft him in Parnaffus, for giving fuch definitions of tyrants as they faid comprehended them all j and forcing the poor philofopher to declare by a new definition, that " tyrants 4' were certain men of antient times, whofe race is now extinguifhed." But with all his wit and learning he could not give a reafon why thofe who do the fame things that rendered the antient tyrants deteftable, fhould not be fo alfo in our days. In the third place, the Scriptures declare the necefiity of fetting bounds to thofe who...
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