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... were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery,... ...s to be a conference without a name. Nine monarchs, the presidents of four republics, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers and ambassadors, po... ...nd the still more infinitesimal pretensions of one or two ax-presidents of republics, no member of the council had even the shade of a right to his pa...
..., and down rolls the world In mock heroics stranger than our own; Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboys’ barring out; Too ...
...rs ago that here in China we should live to see a republic? The age of the republics draws near, when men in every country of the world will look stra... ...d oppressors, and the Justice of God, the Kingdom of God set high over the republics of mankind, has brought peace for ever to the world. It is to thi...
... the rank of captain in 1832. When the amateur of the best of all possible republics was removed from the command of the National guard, Oscar Husson,...
...great days. Get down there around the line in those little, out-o’-the-way republics along the South American coast, and things happen to you. Y ou ho...
...an not to apostatize too suddenly. “Napoleon said it; you can’t make young republics of old monarchies. Therefore, my dear fellow, become the hero, th...
...ing the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sym- pathies with the United States...
...y had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingd...
...nd to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a govern- ment, of necessi...
...overnment over a vast expanse of country it is frittered down. The Italian republics were the glory of Europe in the middle ages. Why has Italy succum... ...uccumbed when the Swiss, who were her porters, have triumphed?” “The Swiss republics,” said the doctor, “were worthy house- wives, busy with their own... ... little concerns, and neither hav- ing any cause for envying another. Your republics were haughty queens, preferring to sell themselves rather than bo...
...s there can be no su periority, perfect equality affords no temptation. The republics of Europe are all (and we may say always) in peace. Holland and...
... who were taken young have been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose affairs they have directed. The 108 Bureaucracy world stil... ...(where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that for this pr...
...y, and snarling against the happy dog. Again, if we look upon any of these republics engaged in a foreign war, either of invasion or defence, we shall...
...ront is like a page of black letter, taken from the history of the Italian republics.” “I know little or nothing of its history,” said the Count, glan... ...s with which Italy was plagued, by the dissensions of her petty states and republics, there was a demand for native hardihood. 177 Hawthorne The succ...
...provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attention to one’s boots and one’s b...
... fellow who had come to Rome as an emissary of one of the Central American republics, to drive some ecclesiastical bargain with the papal government. ... ...t was so long, you know,—in fif- teen volumes?” “It was Sismondi’s Italian Republics,” said Mary, sim- ply. Rowland could not help laughing; whereupon...
...the chance of a die than by such idle and vain dreams. And, indeed, in all republics, a good share of the government has ever been referred to chance.... ...ra- tors always repaired. And in truth, we shall find few persons in those republics who have pushed their fortunes to any 401 Montaigne great degree...
...ce of right and freedom in their history than in all his beloved Lombardic republics. And now, what was he but a thorough- going country gentleman, fu...
...greater glory to Thebes than ever was acquired by any other of the Grecian republics, in their civil wars against each other. The behavior, notwithsta...
...ion of all Italy, except those parts which belonged to the Grand Duke, the republics of Venice and Genoa, and the ecclesiastical states of Naples and ...