 | John Locke - 1801 - 512 pągines
...communities in government; and city amongst us has quite a different notion from commonwealth: and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word commonwealth in that sense, in which I find it used by king James the first: and I take it to be its genuine signification ; which if any body dislike,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pągines
...city amongst us has a quite different notion from common-wealth : and therefore, to avoid amhiguity, I crave leave to use the word commonwealth in that sense, in which I tind it used hy King James the jtrst; and I tiki' it to he its genuine signification ; which if any... | |
 | John Locke - 1821 - 536 pągines
...democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not; for... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pągines
...in government ; and city amongst us has a quite different notion from commonwealth: and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word commonwealth in that sense, in which I find it used by king James the First; and I take it to be its genuine signification ; which if any body dislike,... | |
 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - 1829 - 116 pągines
...Government, but any independent Community which the Latins signified by the word Civitas — and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word Commonwealth in that sense in which I find it used by King James the First, and I take to be its genuine signification, which if any bodydislike,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 pągines
...government ; and city, amongst us, has a quite different notion from commonwealth : and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word commonwealth in that sense in which I find it used by King James the First : and I take it to be its genuine signification ; which, if any body dislike,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1832 - 312 pągines
...synonymous, and mean a society formed for the independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas ; to which the word which best answers in our language is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not : for... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pągines
...along to mean, not a democracy, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our..." To avoid ambiguity I crave leave to use the word Commonwealt/t in that sense in which I find it used by Tting James the First, and I take it to be its... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 pągines
...along to mean, not a democracy, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our...word Commonwealth in that sense in which I find it used by limg James the First, and 1 take it to be its genuine signification — which if anybody dislike,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 482 pągines
...along to mean, not a democracy, but any independent community, which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our...word commonwealth in that sense in which I find it used by King James the First, and I take it to be its genuine signification — which if anybody dislike,... | |
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I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is commonwealth... 
