Memoirs of the Life of Sir Thomas More: Lord High Chancellor of England, in the Reign of Henry VIII. To which is Added, His History of Utopia, Translated Into English...with Notes Historical and ExplanatoryL. Davis and C. Reymers, 1758 - 230 oldal |
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104. oldal - This rule is easily observed, by removing some of the children of a more fruitful couple to any other family that does not abound so much in them. By the...
73. oldal - ... when, I say, I balance all these things in my thoughts, I grow more favourable to Plato, and do not wonder that he resolved not to make any laws for such as would not submit to a community of all things...
96. oldal - The rest of their time, besides that taken up in work, eating and sleeping, is left to every man's discretion ; yet they are not to abuse that interval to luxury and idleness, but must employ it in some proper exercise according to their various inclinations, which is for the most part reading. It is ordinary to have public lectures every morning before daybreak...
159. oldal - But they, on the other hand, wondered at the folly of the men of all other nations ; who, if they are but to buy a horse of a small value, are so cautious, that they will see every part of him...
19. oldal - For most princes apply themselves more to affairs of war than to the useful arts of peace; and in these I neither have any knowledge, nor do I much desire it; they are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms, right or wrong, than on governing...
64. oldal - So he that can find no other way for correcting the errors of his people but by taking from them the conveniences of life, shows that he knows not what it is to govern a free nation. He himself ought rather to shake off his sloth, or to lay down his pride, for the contempt or hatred that his people have for him takes its rise from the vices in himself.
173. oldal - They, in opposition to the sentiments of almost all other nations, think that there is nothing more inglorious than that glory that is gained by war.
89. oldal - The streets are twenty feet broad ; there lie gardens behind all their houses; these are large, but enclosed with buildings, that on all hands face the streets ; so that every house has both a door to the street, and a back door to the garden. Their doors have all two leaves, which as they are easily opened, so they shut of their own accord ; and there being no property among them, every man may freely enter into any house whatsoever. At every ten years' end they shift their houses by lots.
42. oldal - ... in their crimes. They go about loose and free, working for the public. If they are idle or backward to work, they are whipped; but if they work hard, they are well used and treated without any mark of reproach, only the lists of them are called always at night, and then they are shut up. They suffer no other uneasiness, but this of...