# The Commonwealth of Oceana

Author: Harrington, James, 1611-1677

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2801

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## Summary

JANOTTI, the most excellent describer of the Commonwealth of Venice, divides the whole series of government into two times or periods: the one ending with the liberty of Rome, which was the course or empire, as I may call it, of ancient prudence, first discovered to mankind by God himself in the fabric of the commonwealth of Israel, and afterward picked out of his footsteps in nature, and unanimously followed by the Greeks and Romans; the other beginning with the arms of Caesar, which, extinguishing liberty, were the transition of ancient into modern prudence, introduced by those inundations of Huns, Goths, Vandals, Lombards, Saxons, which, breaking the Roman Empire, deformed the whole fa...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-commonwealth-of-oceana-2801/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-commonwealth-of-oceana-2801/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-commonwealth-of-oceana-2801/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-commonwealth-of-oceana-2801/chapters/2/index.md)