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.......................................................................... 21 DEMOCRACY AND----WESTERN STYLE TEENAGERS-DRUGS, CLOTHES, SEX ........ 22 ... ...3 adhered to. Of course those that are counter to developing a cooperating democracy we minimize or forget. In the late 90s in China the entre... ...es of the citizens. We don‘t allow lobbyists to influence our decisions. DEMOCRACY AND----WESTERN STYLE TEENAGERS- DRUGS, CLOTHES, SEX ―Chin... ... and is moving slowly towards a Western style of thinking, which many call democracy. Unhappily the worst aspects of your democracy—the self centered... ...nies the promise of freedom. But self-centeredness is not the essential of democracy. It is instead the basis for a lack of responsibility—for licens... ...n enlightened democracy for all the people. Whether we look at the ancient Athenians‘ democracy only for the male citizens, or the thinkers of the E...

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...ic, and systemic failures in all spheres of policy, even the most resilient democracy develops a predilection to "strong men", leaders whose self- c... ...s" rather than "strong men". Yet, all these polities maintain a theatre of democracy, or a theatre of "democratically-reached consensus" (Putin cal... ...a theatre of "democratically-reached consensus" (Putin calls it: "sovereign democracy"). Such charades are devoid of essence and proper function an... ...he party in power. In most developing countries and nations in transition, "democracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are the... ..., Indonesia, Mexico, and Bolivia. Many nations have chosen prosperity over democracy. Yes, the denizens of these realms can't speak their mind or ... ... are choosing ourselves. APPENDIX: A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform The Athenian model of representative participatory democracy was both exclus...

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... members/citizens through direct participation in voting. Similar to participatory democracy, holders of offices can be recalled by constituents. ... ... both legitimate and desirable. Lobbying has been an integral and essential part of democracy since it was invented in Athens 2500 years ago. The Je... ...ion retards development and produces instability by undermining the credentials of democracy, state institutions, and the political class. Reduced ... ... utilitarianism, heterogeneity, self fulfilment, fluidity of the social structures, democracy. Exogenic-Extrinsic Meaning Cultures Versus Endogenic... ...ptures the meaning, the use, the function and the essence of a term or a concept. Democracy, Participatory vs. Representative Governors are recall... ...ally are choosing ourselves. APPENDIX - A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform The Athenian model of representative participatory democracy was bot...

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... members/citizens through direct participation in voting. Similar to participatory democracy, holders of offices can be recalled by constituents. ... ... both legitimate and desirable. Lobbying has been an integral and essential part of democracy since it was invented in Athens 2500 years ago. The Je... ...ion retards development and produces instability by undermining the credentials of democracy, state institutions, and the political class. Reduced ... ... utilitarianism, heterogeneity, self fulfilment, fluidity of the social structures, democracy. Exogenic-Extrinsic Meaning Cultures Versus Endogenic... ...ptures the meaning, the use, the function and the essence of a term or a concept. Democracy, Participatory vs. Representative Governors are recall... ...ally are choosing ourselves. APPENDIX - A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform The Athenian model of representative participatory democracy was bot...

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...or his world doesn‘t need them. Commander, I think this is a major obstacle in your quest for reducing population and licensing parents. In a democr... ...xperiencing the Sound and Light in Athens. Sitting on a hill across from the Acropolis I heard Pericles, in pre-Socratic Athens, exhorting the Atheni... ...he Sound and Light in Athens. Sitting on a hill across from the Acropolis I heard Pericles, in pre-Socratic Athens, exhorting the Athenians to democr...

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...at the President of the U.S. gives speeches about the importance of spreading democracy to the very country he is going to War against in order to st... ...ces that he is calling a military invasion and an armed occupation: spreading democracy. Rich countries help poor countries… are you insane? Help... ...t countries. While they regularly spout the hypocrisy of trying to establish democracy in these countries. How has America sought to spread democr... ... the patent office gave them the legal right to use the patent for breathing, democracy and freedom. Of course every living thing would be dead befo... ...nipulation and unfairness; that it has not slowed down the destruction of the Democracy it was supposed to uphold one bit. The supposedly sacred C... ...ed, and glorified the Spartans even more than they idolized and glorified the Athenians. This is the groundwork of mythical and cultural lies that W... ...inwashed lives. Every idiot who has ever asked that question after they, the Athenian aristocrats, asked it idly of Socrates: does not expect to be...

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...n mine, with patina walls, Parian marble floors, and a collection of rare Athenian busts. His library has a Corinthian copy of Homer and a collectio... ...en somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindly and fem... ...ional goal to offer clemency and pardon as we attain peace, peace for our democracy. I will at once lift the naval blockade. I will urge Congress to...

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... in its real light, as a recreation, not as a business, and to cultivate a democracy in nthiotios rather tlian an aristocracy of athletes. Every good ... ...rifty, narrow-minded coun- tryman, and the other an open- hearted, liberal Athenian. The former has two sons, one of whom has been adopted by his brot... ...ntercollegiate ath- letics we can see a damaging ef- fect on inter-college democracy. When the slogan of intramural athletics raised not long ago in C... ...l be held on Thursday, January 23, at 7.15 p. m,, when thssabjeot "College Democracy'* will be discussed. The seniors will meet vrith V. Q. Roberts in... ...s of the skilled few, which is contrary to the meaning of sport and to the democracy of college ath- letics. It the rnle is ri'asouable the individual... ...hidiie prevalence of luxury is almost sure to exercise untoward effects on democracy in college life. No just claim can be laid at the door of the und...

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...ucation by John Dewey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ........................................................... 353 5 John Dewey Democracy and Education by John Dewey Chapter One: Education as a Necessity... ... they die. The creature is not equal to the task of indefinite self-re- 6 Democracy & Education newal. But continuity of the life process is not depe... ...pre- cisely similar fashion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institution... ...c. Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission 8 Democracy & Education takes place, the most civilized group will relapse in... ...erned eternal truth. This sharp antithesis is connected with the fact that Athenian philosophy began as a criticism of custom and tradition as standar... ...re tested. It is suggestive that European philosophy originated (among the Athenians) under the direct pressure of edu- cational questions. The earlie...

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...ed ship, during whose thirty days’ voyage to and from the oracle at Delos no Athenian citizen could be put to death. dawn has broken; he himself has ... ...hildren be the gainers if he takes them into Thessaly, and deprives them of Athenian citizenship? Or if he leaves them behind, does he expect that th... ...ho had been his pupils, were still recent in the memory of the now restored democracy. The fact that he had been neutral in the death struggle of Ath... ...dertakes the defence of his friend and master in this particular, not to the Athenians of his day, but to posterity and the world at large. Whether ... ...on whether I ought or ought not to try to escape without the consent of the Athenians: and if I am clearly right in escap ing, then I will make the... ...riend, from repeating to me that I ought to escape against the wishes of the Athenians: for I am extremely de sirous to be persuaded by you, but not ...

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...us, and had a tutor and attendant set over him named Connidas, to whom the Athenians, even to this time, the day before the feast that is dedicated to... ...rrived the third time from Crete the col- lectors of the tribute which the Athenians paid them upon the following occasion. Androgeus having been trea... ... murdered in the confines of Attica, not only Minos, his fa- ther, put the Athenians to extreme distress by a perpetual war, but the gods also laid wa... ... named Taurus, a man of no merciful or gentle disposition, who treated the Athenians that were made his prize in a proud and cruel manner. Also Aristo... ...he first-fruits of their men to Delphi, and that some descendants of these Athenian slaves were mingled with them and sent amongst them, and, unable t... ... to those of greater power he promised a commonwealth without monarchy , a democracy, or people’s government in which he should only be continued as t... ...archy, when the kings had the upper hand, and another while towards a pure democracy, when the people had the better, found in this establishment of t... ...librium; the twenty-eight always adhering to the kings so far as to resist democracy, and, on the other hand, supporting the people against the establ... ...ius acquiesced, that to rule was rather Brutus’s due, as the author of the democracy. But when the name of monar- chy was odious to the people, and a ...

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... entertainment, and the army a mere multitude of voters, canvassed as in a democracy for 44 V olume Two the election of this or that commander. Eumen... ...en to assist him in some love-matters. He had an attachment for a youth of Athenian birth, who was bred up as an athlete; and when at the Olym- pic ga... ...the son of Phaeax, “That the Lacedaemonians were better in public, but the Athenians in private.” For while approving himself an excellent king and ge... ... which under the conduct of Sparton, their general, they obtained over the Athenians under Tolmides, who himself fell in the battle. And next morning ... ...thought the sudden capture of the Piraeus, and the cutting off thereby the Athenians from the sea, would be a matter of far more glory. It is said, to... ...e they felt at the business, and their desire to appear in the eyes of the Athenians as fellow-sufferers; in the wrong, rather than accomplices in its... ...o the city, declaring in the name of the king, that he restored them their democracy, and that the whole Athenian people were at liberty to conduct th... ...er, of the whole 457 Plutarch’s Lives government from an aristocracy to a democracy; his action intimating that public speakers should address themse... ...orld that he was as good a nursing father of a kingdom as he had been of a democracy, for the actions of the king had in them the touch and color of h...

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...Act had placed it, then it would have settled into the keeping of a fierce democracy. Mr. Forsyth has justly remarked, that in such a case the hired p... ...he whole Grecian literature, nor would they have been comprehensible to an Athenian. The famous line— ’Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveri... ...liged, like those in the Midsummer Night’s Dream, to pass the night, in an Athenian wood, his excellency died of vexa- tion. Where may not men find a ... ...le of the honor attached to being bit by a flea lineally descended from an Athenian flea that in one day may possibly have bit three such men as Peric... ...e more arguments than one for this belief. But one will be sufficient. The Athenian painter who recorded the battle of Marathon in fresco upon the wal... ...ure—yet in Athens only is there a great open museum of such monuments. The Athenian buildings, though none of them Homeric in point of origin, are old...

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...That boy,” his master at Bath School had said, “that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.” He was sen... ...ocratic element in her social composition, when pulling against her strong democracy. I am not the man to laugh at it. But sometimes, undoubtedly, it ...

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...er through life. For the present, his and those young people’s aim was: By democracy, or what means there are, be all impostures 48 The Life of John ... ...is the manner of young gifted men, this faith, grounded for the present on democracy and hustings op- erations, and giving to all life the aspect of a... ...ng those winter days of 1829-30; setting into open conflagration the young democracy that was wont to assemble there! Of which there is now left next ... ...tness and sim- plicity of the Ancient Monuments, though these have not the Athenian elegance. I recur perpetually to the galleries of Sculpture in the...

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...arages, cheap apartment-houses, and fruit-stands conducted by bland, sleek Athenians. Across the belt of railroad-tracks, facto- ries with high-perche... ...inating move- ments like Efficiency, and Rotarianism, and Prohibition, and Democracy are what compose our deepest and truest wealth. And maybe this ne...

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...which incited the composition. The Agamemnonian story was exhibited on the Athenian theatre with as many variations as dramas. I have presumed to empl... ...warmest sympa- thies were for the people. He was a republican, and loved a democracy. He looked on all human beings as inheriting an equal right to po... ...inartificial that I doubt whether, if recited on the Thespian waggon to an Athenian village at the Dionysiaca, it would have obtained the prize of the...

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...eal, and I know enough to feel that she’s a kind of ema nation of the great democracy—of the continent, the country, the nation. I don’t say that she... ...s on my nerves and that I feel about her a good deal as that intensely human Athenian felt about Aristides the Just.” Isabel looked hard at her cousin...

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...eal, and I know enough to feel that she’s a kind of emanation of the great democracy— of the continent, the country, the nation. I don’t say that she ... ...on my nerves and that I feel about her a good deal as that intensely human Athenian felt about Aristides the Just.” Isabel looked hard at her cousin; ...

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...Chapter VI Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable ............................. 76 Chapter VII Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only 92 Chapter VIII Of the Extension of the Suffrage ..................................................................................................... ...

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...e government, what is meant by power? Not thews and sinews; otherwise pure democracy would be the only form of polity that could exist. To mere muscul... ... dicastery and the ecclesia raised the intellectual standard of an average Athenian citi zen far beyond any thing of which there is yet an example in... ...merely to one knot of public men or another; where the idea entertained of democracy is merely that of opening offices to the competition of all inste... ..., as 62 Considerations on Representative Government in a pure monarchy or democracy. This is the portion of truth in the opinion of the ancients, rev... .... Such precautions have ex isted in all well constructed democracies. The Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the Un... ...The necessity of some provision corresponding to this was felt even in the Athenian Democracy, where, in the time of its most complete ascendancy, the... ...sity of some provision corresponding to this was felt even in the Athenian Democracy, where, in the time of its most complete ascendancy, the popular ... ...n their numerical share of the actual administration of government; as the Athenians did not con fide responsible public functions to Cleon or Hyperb... ...d that the ballot, so far as it existed, had a beneficial operation in the Athenian constitution. Even in the least unstable of the Grecian com monwe...

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...med the centre of the narrative; in the age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The M... ...of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia is a war of liberation; t... ... Athenian history. The war of Athens and Boeotia is a war of liberation; the Athenians gave back the Spartans taken at Sphacteria out of kindness inde... ...as no diffi- culty in improvising any number of such orations. To praise the Athenians among the Athenians was easy, to praise them among the Lacedaem... ...ho quotes, in the Rhetoric, the well- known words, It is easy to praise the Athenians among the Athenians, from the Funeral Oration, may perhaps tur... ...ives various names, according to the fancies of men, and is sometimes called democracy, but is really an aristocracy or government of the best which h...

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...ery sorry if Meletus could lay that to my charge. But the simple truth is, O Athenians, that I have nothing to do with these studies. Very many of tho... ...onceited; but the truth is that I have no knowledge of the kind. I dare say, Athenians, that someone among you will reply, 5 Apology “Why is this, So... ... appear to know, and find out the meaning of the oracle. And I swear to you, Athenians, by the dog I swear! for I must tell you the truth the resu... ...y corrupt them? or do they too improve them? They improve them. Then every Athenian improves and elevates them; all with the exception of myself; an... ...urt, which is a place not of instruction, but of pun ishment. I have shown, Athenians, as I was saying, that Meletus has no care at all, great or sma... ... be cause I feared imprisonment and death. This happened in the days of the democracy. But when the oligarchy of the Thirty was in power, they sent f...

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...Parians sent ten commissioners who gave Miletus a new constitution. So the Athenians, when they were found- ing their model new colony at Thurii, empl... ...eal, he also thinks of them as the result of the struggle between classes. Democracy, he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; ... ... houses. Now he is desirous to have his whole plan of government neither a democracy nor an oligarchy, but something between both, which he calls a po... ... [1266a] Laws, that the best form of government must, be one composed of a democracy and a tyranny; though such a mixture no one else would ever allow... ...ent of Plato’s there are no traces of a monarchy, only of an oligarchy and democracy; though he seems to choose that it should rather incline to an ol... ...s done also by those who have the supreme power in separate states; as the Athenians with respect to the Samians, the Chians, and the Lesbians; for wh... ...uring them in marriage for his two sons, began a sedition, and excited the Athenians to attack them, being the host of that state. There was also a di... ...dissolve the democracy. And at Syracuse, the victory in their war with the Athenians 156 A Treatise on Government being owing to the common people, t... ...the same thing will happen if it is not their neighbour; of which both the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians are a proof; for the one, when conquerors ...

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... only by those of Greece proper, who allege that it originated under their democracy, but also by the Megarians of Sicily , for the poet Epicharmus, w... ...villages, they say, are by them called {kappa omega mu alpha iota}, by the Athenians {delta eta mu iota}: and they assume that Comedians were so named... ...add also that the Dorian word for ‘doing’ is {delta rho alpha nu}, and the Athenian, {pi rho al- pha tau tau epsilon iota nu}. This may suffice as to ... ... remain un- known. As for the plot, it came originally from Sicily; but of Athenian writers Crates was the first who, abandoning the ‘iam- bic’ or lam...

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...his mythical tale, of which the subject was a his tory of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an... ...e nian empire—”How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness!” or, more... ...overnment of the soldier and the lover of honor, this again declining into democracy, and de mocracy into tyranny, in an imaginary but regular order ... ...ve met at any one time is not a difficulty which would have occurred to an Athenian reading the work forty years later, or to Plato himself at the ti... ...he lovers of theatricals, or in the fantastic behavior of the citizens of democracy. His weak nesses are several times alluded to by Socrates, who,... ...rs Plato represents the successive stages of morality, beginning with the Athenian gentleman of the olden time, who is followed by the practi cal m... ...d saying that he was famous, not for his own merits but because he was an Athenian: ‘If you had been a native of my country or I of yours, neither ... ...ly approved, and is a form of government which teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which naturally follows oli garchy, although very different: an... ..., consider oligarchical man; and then again we will turn our attention to democracy and the democratical man; and lastly, we will go and view the cit...

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...mes needful. From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citize... ...ich we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the effi... ...t must derive from the Union. The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in t... ...e, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large ove... ... turned out of the confederacy for the unfaithful part they had acted. The Athenians, finding that the Lacedaemonians would lose fewer partisans by su... ...rated Peloponnesian war; which itself ended in the ruin and slavery of the Athenians who had begun it. As a weak government, when not at war, is ever ... ...e revolt of Messene, one of its members, being joined by the AEtolians and Athenians, erected the standard of opposi- tion. Finding themselves, though... ... 112 The Federalist Papers having suffered a severe defeat at sea from the Athenians, de- manded Lysander, who had before served with success in that ... ...e sceptre from reason. Had every Athe- nian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. 249 The Federalist Papers I...

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...he true forms of government? Are they not three—monarchy , oli- garchy , and democracy? and the distinctions of free- dom and compulsion, law and no l... ...ded into royalty and tyranny; oligarchy into aristocracy and plutocracy; and democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. But are any of these... ...ing, that each of the three forms of government, royalty , aristocracy , and democracy , might be divided into two, so that the whole number of them, ... ...stocracy and plutocracy; and democ- racy may also be divided, for there is a democracy which observes, and a democracy which neglects, the laws. The g... ...volutions, and not without parallel in modern times, that the leaders of the democracy have been themselves of aristocratic origin. The people are exp... ...of them; and the Eleatic Stranger takes up a position similar to that of the Athenian Stranger in the Laws. VII. There would have been little disposit...

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...ts periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that e... ...w is too mild, private vengeance comes in. If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citi... ...tions with places and times, with number and size. Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and En- gland, so tingle in the ear? Where the heart ... ...dentical in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a democracy. Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of thei... ...ich religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient. Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present ... ...se liberalities. They have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it. The spirit of our American radica...

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... Stuart Mill Revolution. I learnt with astonishment that the principles of democracy, then apparently in so insignificant and hopeless a minority ever... ...ailing myself of my familiarity with Greek history and ideas, and with the Athenian ora tors, I wrote two speeches, one an accusation, the other a de... ...r any of the phrases, more or less significant, by which, up to that time, democracy had usually been defended, but as the most essential of “securiti... ...rnment as a scientific theory; though I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle, and regarded it as a question of time, ... ...g to render the people more powerful for throwing off the yoke: but if the democracy obtained a large, and perhaps the prin cipal share, in the gover... ...ianism, the doctrine of circumstances, and the attaching any importance to democracy, logic, or political economy. Instead of my hav ing been taught ...

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...ose who have to learn how to do such things or starve. From what is called Democracy no corrective to this state of things could be hoped. It is said ... ... front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will. Thus our democracy moves in a vicious circle of re- ciprocal worthiness and unworthi... ... man would work at home regardless of the call “to make the world safe for democracy.” His brother would be killed at the front. Immediately he would ... ...heatre than the Dialogues of Plato, not to mention revivals of the ancient Athenian drama and a restoration to the stage of Shakespeare’s plays as he ... ...t me? LADY UTTERWORD. There is Hastings. Get rid of your ri- diculous sham democracy; and give Hastings the necessary pow- ers, and a good supply of b...

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...roba- tion of a racy anecdote. What interest could he possibly take in the Athenian Theatre and the girl whose flute-playing behind the scenes, imitat... ...ke, as if he were a lord or a con- stable. It’s an instinct of the English democracy. So with my bit of coin turning over and over in an undecided way...

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...tion much superior to any of the like profession in the present times. The Athenians sent Carneades the academic, and Diogenes the stoic, upon a solem... ...s a people more jealous of admitting foreigners to public offices than the Athenians, their consideration for him must have been very great. This ineq... ...uch either the influence of the crown on the one hand, or the force of the democracy on the other. But if the number of American representatives were ...