Soveraign

Representative, (that is, the Soveraign;) and therefore the Soveraign is the sole Legislator.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

And I know not how this so manifest a truth, should of late be so little observed; that in a Monarchy, he that had the Soveraignty from a descent of 600 years, was alone called Soveraign, had the title of Majesty from every one of his Subjects, and was unquestionably taken by them for their King; was notwithstanding never considered as their Representative; that name without contradiction passing for the title of those men, which at his command were sent up by the people to carry their Petitions, and give him (if he permitted it) their advise.

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Soveraign, is the Nation of that Soveraign, that is, of the

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Hobbes may have written of the individual surrendering all rights of governing himself, and of his authorizing all the actions of the sovereign, even to the extent that “every Subject is Author of every act the Soveraign doth,” yet he only applied this within the limits imposed by Natural Law.

SOCIAL CONTRACT MICHAEL LEVIN 1968

Neither was He, in his time, lesse Gracious with the _Subject_, then with his _Soveraign_: He was ever Acceptable to the _House of

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

-- (_Marginal note_,) _Let this bee noted, and let all men judge of the purpose of the Frenche_, and how good and wise patriots they were, who sold our Soveraign to France for their private profit, and they by name were the Hamiltons.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

You may reckon among these his Elegy upon our late Soveraign, and his

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Scouring is necessary first; which is done by the most Soveraign _Aloes

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

_Apoplex_: Gather the Herb _Asterion_ (the Moon being in the Waine and in the Sign _Virgo_) wash your Hawks meat with the Juice thereof when you feed her, is Soveraign.

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

O Soveraign Lord, keep back my heart strongly, that it may never more return to its imperfect liberty, but all annihilated may die to the world, and remain united with thee.

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907