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...is originall and fruitfull source, the images and patterns to trouble our commonwealth. We may reade in our very lawes, made for the remedie of the ... ... doe it,' replied he, 'is it because thou wouldest be Emperour? Truly the commonwealth is but in hard condition, if none but myselfe hinder thee fro... ...knowledge, but makes no use of it. The chiefest ordinance of Plato in his Commonwealth is to give unto his Citizens their charge according to their ... ...ir infancie. And (without offence be it said) me thinks that Plato in his Commonwealth allowed them too-too much authoritie. Madame, Learning joy... ...nd grudge the common people such publike sports. Politike and wel ordered commonwealths endevour rather carefully to unite and assemble their Citize... ...ates to know the course. Seeing that not a man alone, nor a king only, but monarchies and empires; yea, and all the http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/m... ... he was wont to alleage; which is, that he was over wearied with the many monarchies and surcharged with the severall dominions, which either his ow...
...187 bounds and they had equality before the law. His negative impact on monarchies may have aided the spread of democracy. The United States proba... ...owing many Turks to immigrate. England opened its doors to those in their Commonwealth, consequently many Indians and Africans came to the UK, but t... ... can request citizenship when you are an adult. It was only in the British Commonwealth and the U.S. that your accidental place of birth made you a c... ...ow the British have changed their rules. While the members of the British Commonwealth were subjects of the United Kingdom until 1981, they don‘t nec...
... there had been so many lower class attempts to reform and change the rotting Monarchies and ‘Empires’ of Europe that the ruling classes of Europe an... ... has since descended into a black racist supremacist Nation. How many former commonwealth colonies are now wallowing today in poverty, disease and s... ...ities? Cut all the heads off the top 10% of the European elite? Destroy the monarchies? Destroy the landed gentry and the rich bourgeoisie? Tha...
...of an ardent faith, great sacrifices may be obtained from the members of a commonwealth by an appeal to their un- derstandings and their experience; e... ...arn- ing may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeav- ors. . . .”* Here follow claus... ...exist in all nations, whatever their laws and customs may be: if man makes monarchies and estab- lishes republics, the first association of mankind se... ...ble in republics, whilst it is more remote and more carefully concealed in monarchies, but it always exists somewhere. There is no country in the worl... ...the elevation of an individual to power. The great advantage of hereditary monarchies is, that as the private interest of a family is always intimatel... ...on. It is sometimes made a subject of complaint that in the constitutional monarchies of Europe the fate of the humbler servants of an Administra- tio... ...he citizens of the surest pledge of the prosperity and the security of the commonwealth; and, by a singular incon- sistency, a man would be excluded f... ... men, of obedience to established laws, of the influence of good morals in commonwealths, and of the sup- port which religious opinions give to order ... ...reat influence in its coun- cils; and they arrive at the government of the commonwealth before they have learnt to govern themselves.* The greater the...
...e collective might of the human race has manifested it- self, are the four monarchies. Four times have the dis- tributive forces of nations gathered t... ...on of the sword, into mighty aggregates— denominated Universal Empires, or Monarchies. These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures; and it is upon their ... ...s question waived, and confining ourselves to the comparison of those four monarchies which actually have existed,—of the Assyrian or earliest, we may... ...ous occupants of Babylonia. We may add, with respect to these two earliest monarchies, that the Assyrian was undefined with regard to space, and the P... ...g as she continued to be Rome, for many a gen- eration she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand* *Unless that hand were her own armed ... ...required, what a host of impeach- ments, sentences, executions, before the commonwealth can reassume its ancient integrity! What! shall I esteem as pr... ...f political economy; and, generally, whatever touched the interests of the commonwealth, though not fall- ing within the general province of legislati...
...e world understand that we do not put our nation nor our Empire before the commonwealth of man. Unless presently we are to follow Germany along the tr... ...complications of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. T wo systems of monarchies, the Bourbon system and the German, then ruled Europe between th... ...igion upon earth. The court-centered diplomacies of the more firmly rooted monarchies steered all the great liberat- ing movements of the nineteenth c...
...s work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow o... ...nward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate: Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all in all his study: Li...
...eems to have admitted ambition and emulation, among the ingredients of his Commonwealth as the incen- tives of virtue, distinctly wishing that there s... ...parta, if he had not died in the Boeotian war. Thus ambitious spirits in a commonwealth, when they transgress their bounds, are apt to do more harm th... ...abhorred the fact, but yet he thought Sphodrias a gallant man, such as the commonwealth much 75 Plutarch’s Lives wanted at that time. For Agesilaus u... ... many, and many of them of such distinc- tion, and that in a time when the commonwealth wanted soldiers so much as then it did, was of dangerous conse... ...ately wrote to him, to act as he should find it best for the profit of the commonwealth. Upon re- ceipt of his orders, he at once changed sides, carry... ...eir own liberty in the midst of so many great cities, military powers, and monarchies, but went on steadily saving and delivering from slavery great n...
...e a small pear bush with its green fruit hanging down. When I think of the Commonwealth I see a shady little group of these small saplings which we ca... ...e stone steps,” and say instead that the things were in Stephen, or in the Commonwealth, or in George III. They got the habit without trouble. T o hav... ... political atmosphere of What Is Man and Other Essays 126 the neighboring monarchies, it is healing and refreshing to breathe air that has known no t... ...republic and re established it where it is quite likely to outlast all the monarchies present and to come, was really a person of no serious consequen...
...hermore our own manners being in a transition state be tween those of old monarchies and what is proper to a new republic,—it necessarily followed th... ...ve nursed children who had gone, more than two centuries ago, to found the commonwealth of which he was a citizen. If you considered them in one way, ...
...ly contracted from that scale which had been suitable when great kings and commonwealths were con- stant suitors within the gates of Delphi, still clu... ...lossal bust, and “atlantean shoulders, fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies.” He also had perished, and too probably by the double crime of ...
...ared of pirates; and, in short, if it were not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchies, cities, ways by sea and land would be exposed to the violence a... ...igent art; for which reason they deserve to be banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed.” The curate listened to him attentively ...
...ared of pirates; and, in short, if it were not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchies, cities, ways by sea and land would be exposed to the violence a... ...igent art; for which reason they deserve to be banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed.” 370 Don Quixote The curate listened to...
...........81 CHAPTER XIII OF THE S UBORDINATION OF THE P OWERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.............................................................84... ...e powers one from another, and show the differ ence betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. 3. Politic... ...legislative authority by which they are in force over the subjects of that commonwealth hath no power over him. Those who have the supreme power of ma... ...ate of Nature, be also punished equally, and as far forth, as it may, in a commonwealth. For though it would be be side my present purpose to enter h... ...be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth, nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, ... ...ll look into the late relation of Ceylon may easily see. 93. In absolute monarchies, indeed, as well as other governments of the world, the subjects... ... son was not any regard or respect to paternal authority, since all petty monarchies—that is, almost all monar chies, near their original, have been... ...wful government.” If this argument be good, I ask, How came so many lawful monarchies into the world? For if anybody, upon this supposition, can show ... ... is in one lasting assembly, always in being, or in one man as in absolute monarchies, there is danger still, that they will think themselves to have ...
...THE ENDS OF POLITICAL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT.......................................................................... 70 CHAPTER X OF THE FORMS OF A COMMONWEALTH................73 CHAPTER XI OF THE EXTENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER....74 CHAPTER XII THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND FEDERATIVE POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH.....................................81 CHAPTER XIII OF TH...
...he pioneers of Socialism and Anarchism, as it moved the inventors of ideal commonwealths in the past. In this there is nothing new. What is new in Soc... ...er and Saint-Simon, who constructed somewhat fantastic Socialis- tic ideal commonwealths. Proudhon, with whom Marx had some not wholly friendly relati... ...roletariat, against the bourgeoisie, which is to es- tablish the Socialist Commonwealth. The whole movement of history is viewed by him as necessary, ... ...em to combine with other revolutionaries to de- stroy the three oppressive monarchies, Russia, Austria and Prussia. Marx attacked him in print, saying... ...of these methods, freedom can be preserved for the artist in a socialistic commonwealth—far more complete freedom, and far more widespread, than any t...
... in their desire for the chief good, namely, the shield and buckler of the commonwealth. However, it is far from being the case that all men can alway... ..., the state would have become simply a monarchy, only differing from other monarchies in the fact, that the latter are, or should be, carried on in ac... ...ve now explained clearly, though briefly,, the main features of the Hebrew commonwealth. I must now inquire into the causes which led the people so of... ...er that we may understand these words, and the de- struction of the Hebrew commonwealth, we must bear in mind that it had at first been intended to en... ...of the state. We have now seen how religion was introduced into the Hebrew commonwealth, and how the dominion might have lasted for ever, if the just ... ...sible, it was bound in time to perish. I am now speaking only of the first commonwealth, for the second was a mere shadow of the first, inasmuch as th...
...ens may have their wives, and children, and goods in common, as in Plato’s Commonwealth; for in that Socrates affirms that all these particulars ought... ...D, it seems proper to change our subject and to inquire into the nature of monarchies; for we have already admitted them to be one of those species of... ...for this reason probable it was, that the first governments were generally monarchies; because it was difficult to find a num- ber of persons eminentl... ...verned by laws which admit the poorest citizen to share the honours of the commonwealth according to his worth. But whenever a whole family or any one... ...rol of law; and this sort of oligarchy exactly corresponds to a tyranny in monarchies, and to that particular species of democracies which I last ment... ...tates or democracies. It is a general maxim in democracies, oligar- chies, monarchies, and indeed in all governments, not to let any one acquire a ran... ...eir preservation. 171 Aristotle CHAPTER X IT NOW REMAINS that we speak of monarchies, their causes of corruption, and means of preservation; and inde...
...ependent of these inducements to war, which are more prevalent in absolute monarchies, but which well deserve our attention, there are others which af... ...s, inter- missions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athe- nian commonwealth. The ambitious cardinal, who was prime minister to Henry VIII.... ...ty or jus- tice? Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not the former administered by men as well as the latter? A... ...they as often engaged in wars, offensive and defensive, as the neighboring monarchies of the same times. Sparta was little better than a wellregulated... ...itting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, clashing, tumultuous commonwealths, the wretched nurseries of un- ceasing discord, and the miser... ... is possessed, by means of the association, of all the advantages of large monarchies.’’ I have thought it proper to quote at length these interesting... ...1783, by the legislature, for the establishment of a constitution for that commonwealth. The plan, like every thing from the same pen, marks a turn of...
... labours of a solitary man in his study, the rock on which have been built commonwealths whose might casts a dwarfing shadow upon two oceans. Like a n... ...f national duties and aspirations have grown un- der the shadow of the old monarchies of Europe, which were the creations of historical necessity. The... ...nd certainly no ground ready for a revolution. The sin of the old European monarchies was not the ab- solutism inherent in every form of government; i... ...titutions sooner, perhaps, than any other. It has not been the business of monarchies to be adaptive from within. With the mission of unit- ing and co...
................................562 BOOK V OF THE REVENUE OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH ............... 564 CHAPTER I OF THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN... ...ONWEALTH ............... 564 CHAPTER I OF THE EXPENSES OF THE SOVEREIGN OR COMMONWEALTH ........ 564 PART I Of the Expense of Defence................... ...s, or Sources, of Revenue, which may peculiarly belong to the Sovereign or Commonwealth ....... 668 PART II Of Taxes ................................... ... books. The fifth and last book treats of the revenue of the sovereign, or commonwealth. In this book I have endeavoured to shew, first, what are the ... ...oured to shew, first, what are the necessary expenses of the sovereign, or commonwealth; which of those ex- penses ought to be defrayed by the general... ... estates, for the same reason that it has generally taken place in that of monarchies, though not always at their first institution. That the power, a... ...ght not be unreasonable. Like what are called the fundamental laws of some monarchies, they might frequently hinder the secu- rity of thousands from b... ... origin of the representation of burghs in the states-general of all great monarchies in Europe. Order and good government, and along with them the li... ...t re- mounting to the remote antiquities of either the French or En- glish monarchies, we may find, in much later times, many proofs that such effects...
...ormal Social Life, as roads and markets and cities, as courts and unifying monarchies, as helpful and directing religious organisations, as literature... ...may pos- sibly be spared from the necessary occupations and affairs of the commonwealth, all that the citizens should withdraw from the bodily service... ...ing them from most of the realities of life, scornful of aristocracies and monarchies, while asserting sim- ply, directly, boldly and frequently an eq... ...an epoch-marking book it was surely Henry Demarest Lloyd’s “Wealth against Commonwealth.” It marks an epoch not so much by what it says as by what it ... ...an chaos, 222 An Englishman Looks at the World an idea, of the collective commonwealth as the datum of reference for every individual life. S S S S S...
...principles on which I believed it my duty to admin ister the affairs of our Commonwealth. My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up t... ... that “in the Roman senate Octavius had a party and Anthony a party, but the Commonwealth had none.” Yet the senate con tinued to meet in the temple ... ...to meet in the temple of liberty to talk of the sacredness and beauty of the Commonwealth and gaze at the statues of the elder Brutus and of the Curti... ...blic interests. A national debt has become almost an institution of European monarchies. It is viewed in some of them as an essential prop to existing... ...an to our own country and people, for the recon struction of Cuba as a free commonwealth on abiding foundations of right, justice, liberty, and assur... ...ntenance of traditional American policy against the colonization of European monarchies in this hemisphere, and in the promotion of peace and inter n...
...an wisdom to consider, or provi- dence to foresee, what is profitable to a commonwealth. Women have been ever lightly esteemed; they have been denied ... ... the editor of Knox’s Works. 201 Familiar Studies of Men & Books reditary monarchies that he will offer any defence of the anomaly. “If rulers were t... ...m of words: “I pray God, Madam, that you may be as much blessed within the Commonwealth of Scot- land, if it be the pleasure of God, as ever Deborah w... ...th of Scot- land, if it be the pleasure of God, as ever Deborah was in the Commonwealth of Israel.”* Deborah again. But he was not yet done with the e...
...f the Hebrew polity to exterminate from the land. Consequently, the Hebrew commonwealth might, as consistently as our own, denounce and punish witchcr... ...‘socially and politically little better than the Gothic, Hunnish, and Avar monarchies.’ But, on consider- ation, the Gothic monarchy embosomed the ger... ...‘the Saracen empire was little bet- ter than the Gothic, Hunnish, and Avar monarchies; and that it proved more durable, with almost equal oppression, ...
...was wont to allege, viz., that he was glutted and overcharged with so many monarchies and so much dominion, as his own valour and that of his ancestor... ..., as if these maims and dislocations were not executed upon members of our commonwealth: “Gratum est, quod patria; civem populoque dedisti, ... ...o boast in the presence of his fellow-citizens, that he had made the great commonwealth of Rome a name without form and without body; and to say that ...
... that any Cossack or Chippeway would come to disturb the honest and simple commonwealth, as that some mon ster institution would at length embrace an... ...and Eve at one leap sheer down to the deluge, and then through the ancient monarchies, through Babylon and Thebes, Brahma and Abraham, to Greece and t...