| Samuel Johnson - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 860
...northern latitude ; cynosure ; loadstar ; any guide or director. POLICE, (po-lees') ns The regulation anil government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants. POLICY, (p9l'-le-se) n. «. The art of government, chiefly with respect to foreign powers , art ; prudence... | |
| Frederic William Maitland - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...last century. Johnson just admits it, but only as a French word used in England; for him police is " the regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants." The group of words, police, policy, polity, politics, politic, political, politician, is a good example... | |
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...think or speak of but with love and esteem.' See/<v/, under March 30, 1783. * Johnson defines police as the regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants. by Aetat.60.] J ohntori s Letter to Mr. Welch. by his interest with Mr. Chamier', procured him leave... | |
| University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...word 'police' in his famous dictionary, 'but only as a French word used in England,' and as meaning 'the regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants' (Maitland 1885: 105). Only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries did an important shift... | |
| Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 406
..."The English lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined this rather vague term in his dictionary of 1755 as the "regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants." In his first American dictionary, published in 1806, Noah Webster defined "police" as "the government... | |
| David Hume - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...was mainly known for his history of the Royal Society and for a life of Abraham Cowley. 9 'POLICE. The regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants' Johnson, Dictionary, art. 'Police'. 10 Sail ust. The Wars of Catiline, 28.4. 1 1 Hume's reference in... | |
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