 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 pàgines
...Harrington, a hundred and twenty years ago, when he said, "For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes, that cannot live without sucking the breasts...princes that delight to be exhausted in that way." I am not ashamed to own the force of your comparison. Nay, I thank you for it, for in so doing you... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pàgines
...foresight : They are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-cities; but such as I mistake if, when they come of age, they...themselves; which causes me to wonder at princes, that like to be exhausted in that way. It is not, however, in his view a complete statement to affirm that... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pàgines
...she is impregnable, can make the land to feed her Gulf. For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts...princes that delight to be exhausted in that way. And so much for the principles of power, whether national or provincial, domestic or foreign ; being... | |
 | 1901 - 482 pàgines
...she is impregnable, can make the land to feed her gulf. For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts...which causes me to wonder at princes that delight to l>e exhausted in that way. And so much for the principles of power, whether national or provincial,... | |
 | George Louis Beer - 1907 - 350 pàgines
...cannot live without sucking the breasts of their Mother Citys, but such as I mistake, if when they com of age they do not wean themselves : which causes...Princes that delight to be exhausted in that way." * Harrington showed keen insight and his conclusion was sound, for under the conditions prevailing... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1910 - 404 pàgines
...written : " They are yet babes, that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-cities ; but such as I mistake if, when they come of age, they...themselves ; which causes me to wonder at princes that like to be exhausted in that way." When, in 1759, the elder Mirabeau announced it, he meant that the... | |
 | Francis William Coker - 1914 - 608 pàgines
...she is impregnable, can make the land to feed her Gulf. For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts...princes that delight to be exhausted in that way. And so much for the principles of power, whether national or provincial, domestic or foreign; being... | |
 | Hugh Francis Russell-Smith - 1914 - 244 pàgines
...Mother Citys, but such as I mistake, 1 " A System of Politics," p. 5o2. * Burton, " Diary," iii. 238. if when they come of age they do not wean themselves,...Princes that delight to be exhausted in that way." 1 This was written in 1656. No wonder Harrington has influenced American thought! The author of " Oceana... | |
 | Frank Arthur Mumby - 1923 - 498 pàgines
...and knew by heart such familiar passages in " Oceana " as : " The colonies in the Indies they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their Mother Cities, but such as I mistake not, if when they come of age they do not wean themselves, which causes me to wonder on Princes that... | |
 | James Harrington - 1924 - 412 pàgines
...the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother-Cities, but such as, I mistake, if when they come of age they do not wean themselves : which causeth me to wonder at Princes that delight to be exhausted in that way. And [10] so much for the... | |
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For the colonies in the Indies, they are yet babes that cannot live without sucking the breasts of their mother cities, but such as I mistake if when they come of age they do not wean themselves; which causes me to wonder at princes that delight to be... 
