...the inferior appendages. of a genius othcrwife excited, cultivated, and refined. " *' To the antieht Greek, or the Roman, the individual was nothing,, and the public every thing. To the modern, in too man) nations of Europe, the individual is every thing, and the public nothing., The ftate is merely...

...appendages of a genius otherwise excited, cultivated, and refined. To the ancient Greek, or the-Roman, the individual was nothing, and the public every thing....individual is every thing, and the public nothing. The state is merely a combination of departments in which consideration, wealth, eminence, or power, are...

...inattentive to the state as perfectly insignificant." 260. To the ancient Greek or Roman, says Ferguson, the individual was nothing and the public every thing....individual is every thing, and the public nothing. — (Hist. Civ. Soc.) (v. 34.) 261. By a law of the Lombards, the freeman who was summoned to defend...

...verbinden gewusst habe. S. 388 ff. ') 2. Aufl., S. 317. s) A. a. O. I, 8, ed. Basil., 1789, p. 85: „To the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual...individual is every thing, and the public nothing." Den Gegensatz von politischer und bürgerlicher Freiheit hat eingehend zuerst Priestley, An essay on...

...verbinden gewufst habe. S. :!88 ff. ') 2. Aufl., S. 317. ") A. a. O. I, 8, ed. Basil., 1789, p. 85: „To the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual...modern, in too many nations of Europe the individual ia every thing, and the public nothing." Den Gegensatz von politischer und bürgerlicher Freiheit hat...

...ancient Greek, or the Roman, the indiridual wag nothing, and the public every thing. To the codern, in too many nations of Europe the individual is every thing, and the pablic nothing." Den Gegensatz von politischer und bürgerlicher Freiheit hat eingehend zuerst Priettley,...

...Evolution: The Story of an Idea (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980). example, had observed that "to the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual was nothing, and the public every thing,"212 an attitude expressed by disdain for commerce213 and by total devotion to classical republican...

...policy, and war, on which the fortunes of nations, or of men, in their collective body, depend.109 But if 'to the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual was nothing, and the public every thing', then 'to the modern, in too many nations of Europe, the individual is every thing, and the public nothing....

...individual behavior rather than the public good, as in the "illustrious states" of ancient Greece and Rome: "To the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual was nothing, and the public everything. To the modern, in too many nations of Europe, the individual is everything, and the public...

...decline and decay-in fact, Rousseau and Ferguson have in common a pessimistic vision of civilization: To the ancient Greek, or the Roman, the individual...individual is every thing, and the public nothing. The state is merely a combination of departments, in which consideration, wealth, eminence, or power, are...