From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered... Essays in Criticism - Page 227by Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - 1869 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
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...through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus ; 12 and from him I receivthe idea of a polity in which there is the same law for...which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ; I learned from him also f consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy ; and... | |
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...Cinna Catulus, a Stoic philosopher. Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus ; 13 and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law...respects most of all the freedom of the governed; I learned from him also f consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy; and a... | |
| John D. Minor, Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati) - Religion in the public schools - 1870 - 448 pages
...I learned to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice ;'' * * * "and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law...respects most of all the freedom of the governed." Morality unknown before the Bible ! How happens it then that Pagan Rome possessed laws evincing a higher... | |
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| Gibson Craig - Biography - 1879 - 320 pages
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| William Wolfe Capes - Stoics - 1880 - 268 pages
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| Paul Barron Watson - Emperors - 1884 - 362 pages
...kept continually before him. He strove to make real that idea which' he speaks of in his Thoughts — the idea of a "polity in which there is the same law...respects most of all the freedom of the governed." " It was a difficult task that lay before the Emperor. Revolutions sometimes take place in politics... | |
| Sir John Fortescue - Constitutional history - 1885 - 480 pages
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