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Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred : Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection

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Title: Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred : Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection

Other titles: De cive; Philosophicall rudiments concerning goverment and civill society

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol/HOB

Creator(s): Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)

Additional creator(s): Vaughan, Robert engraver (Other)

Related people: Vaughan, Robert

Publisher: printed by J.G. for R. Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1651

Language: English

Size and medium: [44], 363, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/287632

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002450449705181

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A translation, by Hobbes, of his: Elementa philosophica de Cive.


With an additional title page, engraved, "Philosophicall rudiments concerning goverment and civill society", signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:". Variant (probably earlier): this title page in another engraving, "Philosophicall elements of goverment and civill society".


Annotation on Thomason copy: "march. 12· 1650"; the 51 in the imprint date has been crossed out.


Philosophicall rudiments concerning goverment and civill society.


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) H2253; Macdonald and Hargreaves 36.

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