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  • From the mists, Mr. Davies summons the kingdoms of Alt Clud, Burgundia, Aragon and Tolosa; he records their emergence, their flowering and theirdemise—whether by "internall diseases" or by "forraign warre," in Thomas Hobbes's words.

    Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time Henrik Bering 2012

  • Quarters of her and careened and went out to seek a Trade and to settle a forraign Commers and Trade in severall places on Madagascar.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • For no authority derived from forraign power, within the Dominion of another, is Publique there, but Private.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Authority at all; such as are the Corporations of Beggars, Theeves and Gipsies, the better to order their trade of begging, and stealing; and the Corporations of men, that by Authority from any forraign Person, unite themselves in anothers Dominion, for easier propagation of

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • For at home by their sole exportation they set what price they please on the husbandry and handy-works of the people; and by the sole importation, what price they please on all forraign commodities the people have need of; both which are ill for the people.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • And therefore no great Popular Common-wealth was ever kept up; but either by a forraign Enemy that united them; or by the reputation of some one eminent Man amongst them; or by the secret

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Lastly, when in a warre (forraign, or intestine,) the enemies got a final Victory; so as (the forces of the Common-wealth keeping the field no longer) there is no farther protection of Subjects in their loyalty; then is the Common-wealth DISSOLVED, and every man at liberty to protect himselfe by such courses as his own discretion shall suggest unto him.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Publique Ministers abroad, are those that represent the Person of their own Soveraign, to forraign States.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • For when there is a Company incorporate for any particular forraign Country, they only export the Commodities vendible in that Country; which is sole buying at home, and sole selling abroad.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Wherein they reason not well; because such as will hold them to their promises, shall be maintained against them by forraign

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

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