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The Owain Glyndwr, built in the shadow of St John's Church, is one of the oldest pubs in Cardiff and has had a variety of names throughout the years including rsvp, the Buccaneer, the Tennis Courts Hotel, the Kemeys-Tynt Arms, the Green Dragon and was known as the Mably Arms back in 1731.
WalesOnline - Home 2009
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There were solemn theorists, such as Mably and Morelly, who were sometimes quoted in the Revolution, but the change in the distribution of property was independent of them.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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Jimi Mistry, Colin Salmon and Luke Mably star in a tale of hungry candidates all applying for a sinisterly unspecified job.
Edge of Darkness; Crazy Heart; Invictus; Exam; The Wolfman 2010
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During the Enlightenment in the 18th century, revolutionary thinkers and writers such as the Marquis de Condorcet, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, abbé de Mably, and Morelly provided the intellectual and ideological expression of the discontented social layers in French society.
Socialism 1995
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Mably was a lover of virtue and freedom; but his virtue was austere, and his freedom was impatient of an equal.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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At the table of my old friend, M. de Foncemagne, I was involved in a dispute with the Abbe de Mably; and his jealous irascible spirit revenged itself on a work which he was incapable of reading in the original.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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None of the distinctions and qualifications made by the Physiocrats protected them against the counter - arguments of Mably, Holbach, Rousseau, Raynal, and
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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But ex - cept for Morelly's Code de la nature (1755), which advocates a return to communism, the others agreed with Mably that although the communism of Sparta and the religious orders was closer to nature than the modern worship of wealth and luxury, “where property has once been established it is necessary to regard it as the foundation of order, peace, and public safety”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968
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Rousseau and Mably believed, on the con - trary, that the institutions of civilization were them - selves a major factor in the corruption of men and their alienation from nature, from simplicity, purity of heart and the life of natural justice, social equality, and spontaneous human feeling; artificial man had imprisoned, enslaved, and ruined natural man.
THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968
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And he attributed the Terror to its unrealizable ideals formu - lated by imitators of ancient republics such as Rousseau and Mably, who did not understand the differences separating ancient from modern societies.
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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