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Montesq. Sp. of Laws, 30, 3, 4; also Robertson's Chas. XV. Non multum. Though in time of peace they hunt often, yet they spend so much more time in eating, drinking, and sleeping, that the former is comparatively small. Thus understood, this passage of T. is not inconsistent with the declarations of Caesar, B.G. 6, 21: Vita Germanorum omnis in venationibus atque in studiis rei militaris consistit.
It was anciently punished with death, as it has been latterly. LI Ælfrid. 31. and 25 H. 8. c. 6. see Beccaria, § 31. Montesq. Bracton, Fleta, &c.
Both considered the republican form of government the most desirable; both thought it impossible without the preservation of substantial equality of property among the citizens. Montesquieu, who knew more of monarchy than Machiavelli, had also more faith in it. Montesq., ii. 136, 140. By his brilliancy he may sometimes have been led away, but I think not often.
At a time when England and the English language were little known in France, he studied them in a way which deeply influenced all his views of government. "In London," he says, "liberty and equality. Montesq., vii. 185. The equality of London is also the equality of the best people, in which it differs from the liberty of Holland, which is the liberty of the populace."
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