...worfe, to * bring nations to fuch mifery, weaknefs, * and bafenefs, as to have neither flrength, * nor courage to contend for any thing ; to * have left...defolation. * I take Greece to have been happy and VOL. I. E glorious, ' glorious, when it was full of populous • cities, flourishing in all the arts...

...for any thing -, to have nothing left worth defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation. I take Greece to have been happy and glorious, when it was full of populous cities, flourishing in all the arts that deserve praise among men : when they were courted and feared by the...

...following account of the decline and weakness of many of the modern states from the loss of liberty.1 ' I take Greece to have been happy and glorious, when it was full of populous cities, flourishing in all the arts that deserve praise among men ; when they were courted and feared by the...

...such misery, weakness and baseness, as to have neither strength nor courage to contend for anything; to have left nothing worth defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation.58 Consequently, for Sidney, as for Machiavelli, a republic for warfare and expansion was...

..."it is worse, to bring nations to such misery, weakness, and baseness, as to have neither strength nor courage to contend for any thing; to have left...worth defending, and to give the name of peace to desolation." Vol. II, p. 300. 120. William Atwood, The Fundamental Constitution of the English Government,...