The American Commonwealth, Količina 2

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Macmillan, 1911

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Stran 828 - no man thinks for himself, or, if he does, fears to express what he thinks. A drear pall of monotony covers the sky. "Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." This doctrine seems to date from the appearance of
Stran 24 - The times have been That when the brains were out the man would die." But a party does not always thus die. It may hold together long after its moral life is extinct. Guelfs and
Stran 551 - but no person who was on January 1st, 1866, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no lineal descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to vote because of his inability
Stran 770 - 1 Four States provide that this declaration is not to be taken to excuse breaches of the public peace, many that it shall not excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State, and three that no person shall disturb others in their religious worship.
Stran 137 - They [the New York politicians] when contending for victory avow the intention of enjoying the fruits of it. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the: spoils of the enemy.
Stran 267 - to it, than has yet been shown elsewhere. Towering over Presidents and State governors, over Congress and State legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, Public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it.
Stran 718 - In 1636 the General Court of the colony of Massachusetts Bay agreed "to give Four Hundred Pounds towards a school or college, whereof Two Hundred Pounds shall be paid the next year, and Two Hundred Pounds when the work is finished, and the next Court to appoint where and what building." In 1637 the General Court appointed a Commission of twelve "to take order
Stran 940 - of material well-being, but of intelligence and happiness, which the race has yet attained, will be the judgment of those who look not at the favoured few for whose benefit the world seems hitherto to have framed its institutions, but at the whole body of the people.
Stran 789 - to apply themselves to the observance of the day by exercising themselves thereon in the duties of piety and true religion. It need hardly be said that these laws are practically obsolete, except so far as they forbid ordinary and
Stran 748 - swiftest progress, and to have the brightest promise for the future. They are supplying exactly those things which European critics have hitherto found lacking to America: and they are contributing to her political as well as to her contemplative life elements of inestimable worth. CHAPTER

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