Liberty before liberalism
Hath no sooner lost its liberty,and stoop’d under the yoke of a single tyrant,but it immediately loseth its fomer lustre.
Although Nedham makes no mention of the Discorsi,his borrowing from Machiavelli is never more evident than at this moment in his argument.
For all these manifestationtions of their classical allegiances,howevwe, we also encounter among Nedham and his contemporaries a growing suspicion of the chief authority on whom they rely at this juncture is, once again, Sallust in his Bellum Catilinae.Despite his admiration for the increase of Rome after the expulsion of her kings, the moral drawn by Sallust from his outline history of the Roman republic is more somber and ironic than this might lead one to expect . With greatness, Sallust lament, came ambition and a lust among Rome’s leaders for power; with growing power came avarice and an insatiable demand for yet more spoils of victory. The villain of the story is said to be Lucius Sulla, who raised a dangerously large army, taught it to covet Asiatic luxuries, and then used it to seize control of
Liberty before liberalismHath no sooner lost its liberty,and stoop’d under the yoke of a single tyrant,but it immediately loseth its fomer lustre.Although Nedham makes no mention of the Discorsi,his borrowing from Machiavelli is never more evident than at this moment in his argument. For all these manifestationtions of their classical allegiances,howevwe, we also encounter among Nedham and his contemporaries a growing suspicion of the chief authority on whom they rely at this juncture is, once again, Sallust in his Bellum Catilinae.Despite his admiration for the increase of Rome after the expulsion of her kings, the moral drawn by Sallust from his outline history of the Roman republic is more somber and ironic than this might lead one to expect . With greatness, Sallust lament, came ambition and a lust among Rome’s leaders for power; with growing power came avarice and an insatiable demand for yet more spoils of victory. The villain of the story is said to be Lucius Sulla, who raised a dangerously large army, taught it to covet Asiatic luxuries, and then used it to seize control of
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