...Therefore, when I consider and weigh in my mind all these common-wealths which now a-days any where do flourish, so GOD help me, I can perceive nothing but...crafts ; first, how to keep safely without fear of loosing, what they have unjustly gathered together: and next, how to hire and abuse the work and labour...

...Thomas More, '' When I consider and weigh in my mind all the commonwealths which nowadays anywhere do flourish, so God help me, I can perceive nothing but...commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth." His distrust of human nature was so great that in a less broad-minded man it might have passed for...

...Commonwealths, which now a-dayes any where do flourish, so God help me, I can perceive nothing but a certaine conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities,...title of the Commonwealth. They invent and devise all meanes and crafts first how to keep safely, without fear of losing, that they have unjustly gathered...

...wholly unlike that of Christian commonwealths, in which 'he saw nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the Commonwealth.' He thought that Christ, like Plato, ' instituted all things common,' for which reason, he tells us,...

...MORE — " I see a conspiracy of rich men who never think tftey have robbed enough. So help me God, I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of...rich men, procuring their own commodities under the title of commonwealth. They invent and devise all means and craft, first how to keep safely, without...

...life there depicted appeared to him wholly unlike that of Christian commonwealths, in which 'he saw nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring...commodities under the name and title of the Commonwealth.' He thought that Christ, like Plato, ' instituted all things common,' for which reason, he tells us,...

...unlike that of Christian commonwealths, in which ' he saw nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the Commonwealth.' He thought that Christ, like Plato, ' instituted all things common,' for which reason, he tells us,...

...relations — "When I consider, and weigh in my mind, all these commonwealths, which, nowadays, anywhere do flourish ; so, God help me ! I can perceive nothing,...rich men, procuring their own commodities, under the names and title of the commonwealth ; for they invent and devise all means and crafts, first, how to...

...life there depicted appeared to him wholly unlike that of Christian commonwealths, in which 'he saw nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring...commodities under the name and title of the Commonwealth.' He thought that Christ, like Plato, ' instituted all things common,' for which reason, he tells us,...

...rich and the wretched condition of the labouring classes. The state, in short, seemed to the writer " nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name of a commonwealth," and he is driven to the conclusion that " perfect wealth shall never be among men...