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...nceptions of the good. In so far as men conceive the good rightly they are united. The state represents their common agreement, force their failure to... ...ts, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking after a common good. Plato and Aristotle were familiar with ... ...totle called in by the whole people, and they tended therefore to take the general will or common consent of the people for granted. Most political qu... ...itical questions are concerned with the construction and expression of the general will, and with attempts to ensure that the political machinery made... ...us of the tripods of Vulcan, “that they moved of their own accord into the assembly of the gods “), the shuttle would then weave, and the lyre play of... ...s wanted. Which custom of barter is still preserved amongst many barbarous nations, who procure one necessary with another, but never sell anything; a... ...e produce should be brought together and used as one common stock, as some nations at present do; or on the contrary, should the soil be common, and s... ...mon to both; but that a man of fortune must necessarily be a member of the assembly, or to elect the magistrates, or take part in the management of pu... ..., that many of the commonalty not being obliged to it, will not attend the elections. From hence it is evident, that such a state will not consist of ...

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...................................................... 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ...................................................................... ......................................... 185 Chapter 1.6.II. The Constituent Assembly. .................................................................... .................................................... 190 Chapter 1.6.III. The General Overturn. ............................................................ ... darkness, and shakings of the world, and a cup of trembling which all the nations shall drink. Remark, meanwhile, how from amid the wrecks and dust o... ...ed with the smoke of burnt wool. (5th June, 1783.) The Vivarais provincial assembly is to be prorogued this same day: Vivarais Assembly-members applau... ...ow nigh rotted. Add only that the French Nation distinguishes itself among Nations by the characteristic of Excitability; with the good, but also with... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...and act- ing. By Primary Assembly, and then by Secondary; by ‘suc- cessive elections,’ and infinite elaboration and scrutiny, according to prescribed ...

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...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...in any small degree add to the good feeling which should exist between two nations which ought to love each other so well, and which do hang upon each... ...rofesses to use a light pen, and to manufacture his article for the use of general read- ers. Such a writer may tell all that he sees of the beauti- f... ... would wish to explain what my feelings were; or rather what I believe the general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the ... ...t we are so confident in our remarks on all the niceties of those of other nations? I hope that I may not be misunderstood as saying that we should no... ...s enjoys the regal attribute of doing no wrong. In every State there is an Assembly, consisting of two houses of elected repre- sentatives—the Senate,... ...es sits only every other year. Both houses are re-elected every year. This Assembly passes laws with all the power vested in our Parliament, but such ... ... are driven, when the polish of Europe has made the roughness of their own elections odious to them. “Have you seen any of our great institootions, si...

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...d the princess in the same tone of voice and still in French, turning to a general, “my hus- band is deserting me? He is going to get himself killed. ... ...e went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. “Fetch me my workbag.” There was a general movement as the princess, smil- ing and talking merrily to everyone... ... Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as if the w... ... fear would pre- vent her understanding any of her father’s further expla- nations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the teacher’s fault or... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that... ...othing but cause the Emperor an- noyance. “I have talked and talked at the Assembly of the No- bility,” Prince V asili interrupted, “but they did not ... ...ould come to congratulate him, offer them refreshments, and talk about the elections of the nobility; but he considered himself entitled to spend the ...

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..., THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a n... ...; Jorge BRAG de MACEDO, Minister for Finance; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Doug... ...impetus for its development and shall de- 9 The Maastrict Treaty fine the general political guidelines thereof. The European Council shall bring toge... ... result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law. 3. The Union shall provide itself with... ...onal shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the Member State in which he resides, under the same condition... ...s they have approved in the context of the United 65 The Maastrict Treaty Nations and other competent international organiza- tions. ARTICLE 130v The... ...—a HIGH AUTHORITY (hereinafter referred to as “the Commission”); —a COMMON ASSEMBLY (hereinafter referred to as “the European Parliament”); —a SPECIAL... ... international se- curity, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter as well as the principles of the Helsinki Final Act and the... ...ean Union; —encouragement of closer co-operation between the Parliamentary Assembly of WEU and the European Parliament. The WEU Council shall, in agre...

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...re, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may re strain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxious t... ...r over his own life. I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but it is plain this was only to dru... .... 41. There cannot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all ... ...e first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they are not consumed by ... ...res, that so their industry might be encouraged, and their interest better united, to make provision and lay up goods for their common issue, which un... ...nd maintenance might be varied and regulated by that contract which first united them in that society, nothing being neces sary to any society that ... ...an that of a commonwealth, will necessarily keep many away from the public assembly; and the variety of opinions and contrariety of interests which un... ... the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person or assembly which is legislator, it can be no more than those persons had in a... ...rding to due forms; or else it is left to his prudence to call them by new elections when the occasions or exigencies of the public require the amendm...

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...ove toward mankind at large that makes them unable to endure patiently the general mass of evil and suffering, re- gardless of any relation it may hav... ...oration might have seemed a hopeless task, and in- deed in the past it has generally proved so. But the modern world, by the increase of education and... ...rades for reasons similar to those which are recommending federalism among nations. The grounds for these conclusions will appear as we proceed. Befor... ...to his enemies instead of to his friends. The class-war, like wars between nations, produces two op- posing views, each equally true and equally untru... ...rlton, county magistrate, declared, as chair- man of a meeting held at the Assembly Rooms, Nottingham, on the 14th January, 1860, “that there was an a... ...he working-class, a class always in- creasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist produc... ...iste Francais (Jaures), there have been only two groups of Socialists, the United Socialist Party and the Independents, who are intellectuals or not w... ... to be subsequently ratified by each of the bodies ap-point- ing them. The assembly of delegates has no coercive power whatever, and a majority can do... ...he case of malcontents except on a first-class political question on which elections may be won or lost. That at least is the way in which things are ...

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...l, is there any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of ... ...t that is a matter of detail. This flying is indeed so certain to become a general experience that I am sure that this description will in a few years... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...ea-linked association of ancient states and new-formed countries, Oriental nations, and con- tinental colonies? What will enable it to resist the endl... ... a corner where little is learnt and much is concocted, into a specialised Assembly which is at once inattentive to and monstrously influential in our... ...likes. So the nimble wire-puller slips in. In Great Britain we do not have Elections any more; we have Rejections. What really happens at a general el... ...n the modernisation and clarification of what should be the delib- erative assembly of the nation. It would be presumptuous to anticipate the National... ... which cannot be bought or made in a hurry, and upon which the strength of nations ultimately rests altogether; we are failing to get and 107 H. G . ...

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... subject to constant attack and despolia- tion. “There where three hostile nations came in contact it was manured with bones, wetted with blood. A sin... ...one (suggests Gogol) prevented any fur- ther inroads by the two Mohammedan nations into Eu- rope. The appearance of the Cossacks was coincident with t... ...e by little the community grew and with its grow- ing it began to assume a general character. The beginning of the sixteenth century found whole villa... ...at Gogol’s emphasis on the heroic rather than on the histori- cal—Gogol is generally discounted as an historian—would give the reader a proper approac... ...ps were sprinkled over the square. A murmur arose, “Why? What? Why was the assembly beaten?” No one answered. At length, in one quarter and another, i... ...in disorder upon them, and kept them back. The Koschevoi ordered a general assembly; and when all stood in a ring and had removed their caps and becam... ...w hitherto un- known work with a feeling of involuntary wonder. All seemed united in it: the art of Raphael, reflected in the lofty grace of the group... ...ny- thing like it in the whole course of his life. Everything seemed to be united in her, wealth, intellect, and wit. She had throngs of admirers, the... ...ristocrats of the district of B—, the most fiery ora- tor at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out. He had served in a cava...

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...iderable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accom... ... prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the power of wri... ... eminently hateful. I have a hundred times heard him say that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing p... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ... I admired more than his remarkable exposi tion of the benefits which the nations of modern Europe have historically derived from the separation, dur... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w... ...arty to exclude all weaker parties from making their opinions heard in the assembly of the nation, except through such opportunity as may be given to ... ...tinction between the function of making laws, for which a numerous popular assembly is radi cally unfit, and that of getting good laws made, which is... ...ing the mis chievous burden of what are called the legitimate expenses of elections. Among our many amendments, was that of Mr. Fawcett for making th...

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...f Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thence- forward to all nations. Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of ... ...etween the monstrous work and himself. When he has satisfied him- self, in general and in detail, that it was made by such a 10 Essays person as he, ... ...ner all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once His- tory becomes fluid and true, and Biography d... ... him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes. The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to des- peration; and this intellectual nomad... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ...t fact by all persons. The world is full of judgment- days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and s... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ...tomy of form. When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been readi... ... more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this ele- ment, if it appears at all, can only occur in it...

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...t the reality of an alleged historical event, in which the feelings of men general are not much interested, as the Siege of Troy example, those who ma... ...ho contend for any restriction or prohibition either any limitation of the general freedom of human action or any disqualification or disparity of pri... ...ts of mankind. We now live—that is to say, one or two of the most advanced nations of the world now The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill 8 li... ...aw of force, having no other origin or justification. Yet in all the great nations of Europe except England it either still exists, or has only just c... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ...r the first time in Parliament, did any of them dream of demanding that an assembly, elected by their constituents)should The Subjection of Women by ... ...masters. With regard to the fitness of women, not only to par ticipate in elections, but themselves to hold offices or practise professions involving...

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...tely a little vulgar. I sought to improve her man- ners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my... ...he Frenchman; it being another of his habits to address individuals of all nations in idiomatic English, with a perfect conviction that they were boun... ...neous glass of cool champagne all round the table? It was done, and with a general shaking of hands the assembly broke up for ever. The solitary young... ... all round the table? It was done, and with a general shaking of hands the assembly broke up for ever. The solitary young lady all this time had said ... ...ir sons for less than this: who would have sent them forth, and sent whole nations forth, if such had supported them, to be avoided of God and man, an... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ver, the speech of Mr F.’s Aunt produced a depressing effect on the little assembly; firstly, because it was impossible to disguise that Clennam’s uno... ...all sorts of toasts. And they stood, under similar orders, at all sorts of elections; and they turned out of their own seats, on the shortest notice a...

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...with a request im possible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively withou... ...old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extr... ...iving, feigning, and continu ally thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything el... ...rn facilities of communication was the accessibility of the pleasures of all nations. He had been in Spain, and there had indulged in serenades and ha... ...women and girls he thought of whom he knew, he could not think of a girl who united to such a degree all, positively all, the qualities he would wish ... ...nd so she was on his side. “So we can reckon upon you, count, for the coming elections?” said Sviazh sky. “But you must come a little beforehand, so ... ... wasting, but increasing his substance. In October there were the provincial elections in the Kashinsky province, where were the estates of Vronsky, S... ...go. He went to Kashin. . . . Levin had been six days in Kashin, visiting the assembly each day, and busily engaged about his sister’s business, which ... ...s placed in, feeling himself surrounded by enemies, his emotion infected the assembly, the majority were touched, and Levin felt a tenderness for Snet...

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...together, and they who were interested in the career of young noblemen had generally thought he had chosen his friend well. Tregear had gone out in ho... ...derstand that he loves her. ’ ‘She did so, Mrs Finn. ’ ‘And I suppose that generally the mother would tell the father. ’ ‘She did not. ’ ‘No; and ther... ...e you have thought better of what we were talking about as to these coming elections. ’ ‘Well, sir,—of course I have thought about it. ’ ‘And can you ... ...n. He had intended to go down into Barsetshire, in reference to the coming elections;—not with the view of interfering in any unlordly, or rather, unp... ...speak of his own iniquity, and that the hero- ine and the demon are so far united that they have been in a garret together. But there is the drawback ... ...uld call your horse by such a name. If my father had been President of the United States, I don’t think I’d call a horse President. ’ ‘I didn’t name t... ...ht attach them, but must, not infrequently, postpone their youthful incli- nations to the will of their elders,—or in less delicate language, that tho... ... the afternoon. In the evening there was a great meeting at the Polwenning Assembly Room, which at the present moment was in the hands of the Conserva... ...neering, he must speak. At a dinner-table to refuse is possible:—or in any assembly convened for any private purpose, a gentleman may declare that he ...

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...is own opinion, though comparatively unimportant, should get a hearing. In general, Boswell’s faults are eas- 5 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ily noticed... ...oncern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind, and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness. From him then his son inherited, ... ...with feigned denominations of the several speakers, sometimes with denomi- nations formed of the letters of their real names, in the manner of what is... ...l known to many to be par- ticularly unsocial, as there is no Ordinary, or united company, but each person has his own mess, and is under no obligatio... ...n of super- natural agency, a general belief of which has prevailed in all nations and ages. But so far was he from being the dupe of implicit faith, ... ...would I not, Sir? Shall the Presbyterian kirk of Scotland have its General Assembly, and the Church of En- gland be denied its Convocation?’ He was wa... ...rious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. Johnson. ‘Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not ... ...as not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of Madrid. ‘And who is the gentleman in lace?’—’... ... that there should be a bill brought into parliament that the controverted elections for Scotland should be tried in that country, at their own Abbey ...

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...examples and types under the broad Alpine survey of the spirit born of our united social intelli- gence, which is the Comic Spirit? Wise men say the l... ...ocess, on board our modern vessel; for it can hardly be the cargo, and the general water supply has other uses; and ships well charged with it seem to... ...by very penetrative, very wicked imps, whose fits of roaring below at some generally imperceptible stroke of his quality, have first made the mild lit... ... Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic co... ...rance is made the creator of our destiny by being forced to the deci- sive elections upon which life’s main issues hang. Her teacher had brought her t... ...ands. Midday-bells expect immediate attention. They know of no anteroom of assembly.” Clara stood gathered up, despairing at opportunity lost. He had ... ...assion. “You have had your ride?” he addressed her politely in the general assembly on the lawn. “I have had my ride, yes,” Clara replied. “Agreeable,... ... before the higher Courts. It seems to me perilous to terrify their imagi- nations. If we do so, are we not likely to produce the very evil we are com... ...hby, glad of acting the indifference to her which could talk of her incli- nations. “Cause?” “Good cause.” “Bless us!” “As good as one can have with a...

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...tely a little vulgar. I sought to improve her man- ners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my... ...he Frenchman; it being another of his habits to address individuals of all nations in idiomatic English, with a perfect conviction that they were boun... ...neous glass of cool champagne all round the table? It was done, and with a general shaking of hands the assembly broke up for ever. The solitary young... ... all round the table? It was done, and with a general shaking of hands the assembly broke up for ever. The solitary young lady all this time had said ... ...ir sons for less than this: who would have sent them forth, and sent whole nations forth, if such had supported them, to be avoided of God and man, an... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ver, the speech of Mr F.’s Aunt produced a depressing effect on the little assembly; firstly, because it was impossible to disguise that Clennam’s uno... ...all sorts of toasts. And they stood, under similar orders, at all sorts of elections; and they turned out of their own seats, on the shortest notice a...