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Aphorisms Political

1659-08-25 Subjects: Philosophy, Politics and government Forms: Pamphlets, Sayings Translation Status: Source-text English London URL

Contributions

James Harrington: author
Henry Fletcher: publisher

Related resources

is part of: The Oceana and other works of James Harrington Esq; Collected, Methodiz’d, and Review’d, with An Exact Account of his Life prefix’d, by John Toland. To which is added, an Appendix, containing all the Political Tracts wrote by this author, omitted in Mr Toland’s Edition has translation
has translation: Aphorismes politiques de J. Harrington, traduits de l'anglois translation has translation has paratext

Summary (extracted citations)

"1. THE errors and sufferings of the people are from their governors. 2. When the foundation of a government coms to be chang’d, and the governors change not the superstructures accordingly, the people becom miserable. 3. The monarchy of England was not a government by arms, but a government by laws, tho imperfect or ineffectual laws. 4. The later governments in England since the death of the king, have bin governments by arms. 5. The people cannot see, but they can feel. etc."

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Notes

Consists of 120 aphorisms on a political theme.

Also included in John Toland, ed., 'The Oceana and other Works of James Harrington, with an account of his life by John Toland' (1771, T. Becket and T. Cadell).

Reprinted in Thomas Spence, Pig's Meat (1794) as 'Fundamental Political Aphorisms or Maxims'.