 | Antonio de Alcedo - America - 1814 - 654 pages
...among godly and sober men, fully evinced the vanity of that conceit of Plato, that the taking away property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing : and, in fact, they raised so little provisions, that once, at least, they were in danger of starving... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Children - 1875 - 400 pages
...amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato and other ancients, and applauded by some of later times, — that the taking away of property, and bringing a community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing ; as if they were wiser than... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - History - 1896 - 416 pages
...godly and sober men, may well Note 9, page 1Si. 1 86 evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos and other ancients, applauded by some of later times — that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and florishing ;... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...common course and condition, tried sundry years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients,...commonwealth, would make them happy and flourishing ; as if they were wiser than God." 25. Delftshaven is fourteen miles from Leyden and two miles from... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - American literature - 1902 - 506 pages
...and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients, applauded...some of later times ; — that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and flourishing ;... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...common course and condition, tried sundry years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients,...commonwealth, would make them happy and flourishing ; as if they were wiser than God." 25. Delftshaven is fourteen miles from Leyden and two miles from... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1905 - 606 pages
...evinced to that great administrator's mind " the vanity of that conceit of Plato and other ancients . . . that the taking away of property and bringing in community...commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing as if they were wiser than God." For it was found to retard employment and to breed discontent among... | |
 | William Bradford - Massachusetts - 1908 - 472 pages
...years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos and other .ancients, applauded by some of later times ; — that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and florishing; as... | |
 | William Bradford, Valerian Paget - Massachusetts - 1909 - 388 pages
...was tried for several years, and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, — that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 446 pages
...common course and condition, tried sundry years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients,...away of property and bringing in community into a common wealth would make them happy and flourishing. . . . Let none object this is men's corruption,... | |
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The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients, applauded by some of later times;— that the taking away... 
