Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Commonwealths

(Ideal). “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More, “The New Atlantis” by Lord Bacon, “The City of the Sun” by Campanella, etc.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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