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languet [ˈlæŋgwɛt] n Rare anything resembling a tongue in shape or function [from Old French languette, diminutive of langue tongue] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Unlike such contemporaries as Hubert Languet (1549-1623), Montaigne generally dismisses the idea that a subject can claim a freedom to resist lawful authority. 7) One specific source for the transmission of those assumptions to Sidney was his longtime mentor and friend, Hubert Languet (1518-81). It was the 'corruption of human nature' that led Languet and Mornay to conclude that kings must be restricted by contracts with their subjects; William of Orange, urging resistance to Philip II, observed that it is 'in the nature of sovereign power not to brook any contradiction'; in 1579 a Dutch tract against Philip remarked on the failings that lie in 'the nature of kings,' or at least in the 'nature' of 'most . |
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