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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ...erstition and social exigency having been thus dealt with in the first two members of the series, it remained for Les Travailleurs de la Mer to show m... ...antenac meets the royal- ists, under the idea that he is going to meet the republicans, it seems as if there were a hitch in the stage mechanism. I ha... ... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ...berate robberies against those of his blood, and trudges hundreds of weary leagues to put them into execu- tion, is surely a little on the wrong side ... ...n which he exposes the hypocritical de- mocracy of the Catholics under the League, steps aside for a moment to stigmatise the hypocritical democracy o... ...s. And such servility was, of all things, what would touch most nearly the republican spirit of Knox. It was not difficult for him to set aside this w...

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...re we venture to receive it as offered in good faith and loyalty. Even the Greeks are nearly in the same [Greek text], when they wish to speak of reli... ...erious praise. Some circuitous form, commending the correctness of a man, [Greek text], in respect of divine things, becomes requisite; for all the di... ...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ing such, you will participate in all advantages, if any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in ... ...r strike the reader, that the Greeks and Romans, although so franti- cally republican, and, in some of their institutions, so demo- cratic, yet, on th... ...ch of bishops bound and compromised by the audacity of any one amongst its members? Certainly not. But yet such an act, though it should be that of a ... ...ciples; we refer, not to those who were born, but to those who have become members of the Church of Rome.’ What is the name of those people? And where... ...ant with childlike arms, against Paganism triumphant. But Christianity, in league with civilization, and resting on the powers of this earth allied wi... ...could Piso have complained? It would have been said—‘Oh, there’s an end of republican simplicity, if plain speaking is to be put down.’ And then it wo...

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... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ... the present quitted us: and once more Agnes, Hannah, and I, the shattered members of a shattered family, were thus gathered together in a house of ou... ...for man and beast; the product of which eight hours was from ten to twelve leagues. On the last day but one of the journey, the travelling party, whic... ..., which was precisely the original dinner party, reached a little town ten leagues short of Cuzco. The Corregidor of this place was 131 Thomas de Qui... ... the Kalmuck 145 Thomas de Quincey language called Sarga—there were eight members, called Sargatchi; and hitherto it had been the custom that these e... ...of the T en Thousand. Xenophon affirms that there were ‘many’ women in the Greek army—pollai aesun etairai en tosratenaeazi; and in a late stage of th... ...an honest answer, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Th... ...cely as the infection of habits amongst the dense and fiery populations of republican North America. But it is remarkable, that the whole ancient syst...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...ociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock com- pany, in which the members agree, fo... ...ade, and though sel- dom named, exalt his business to his imagination. The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile fro... ...ture to the powers of dis- simulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived w... ...in heroic hands. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap per- sons, where no friendship can be. Our... ...h, When the state-house is the hearth, Then the perfect State is come, The republican at home. XIX. POLITICS I n dealing with the State we ought to re...

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...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ...which of them, by that of some particular part only, or of some particular members of it: secondly, what are the different methods in which the whole ... ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ...ern code. The Roman law is perfectly silent with regard to them. I know no Greek or Latin word (I might venture, I believe, to assert that there is no... ..., but their slavery was of a milder kind than that known among the ancient Greeks and Romans, or even in our West Indian colonies. They were supposed ... ...more such, perhaps, in England than in any other European monarchy. In the republican governments of Holland, and of Berne in Switzer- land, the farme... ...r to obtain it, to become either his slaves or vassals; or to enter into a league of mutual defence for the common protection of one another. The inha... ...gle individuals, had no power to defend themselves; but by entering into a league of mutual defence with their neighbours, they were capable of making... ...e of the provinces of New England in particu- lar, have hitherto been more republican too. The absolute governments of Spain, Portugal, and France, on...

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...ir children in the way they think they should go. The old observation that members of large families get on in the world holds good because in large f... ...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ...lves in the art of self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national estimate of them by allowing us to blacken three of their eyes for... ...t, and excludes it if it happens to run counter to the opinions of all the members. The result is that his opinions are not worth considering. A churc... ...ildhood, as of everything else, lies our ridiculous misdistribution of the national income, with its accompanying class distinctions and imposition of... ...er what its political con- victions may be, that there are Monarchists and Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know... ...s deep as Dr. Watts and in fact fathoms deeper. 95 Shaw Moral Instruction Leagues AND NOW THE VOICES of our Moral Instruction Leagues will be lifted,...

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...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...nk back to their kennels in dis grace, or perchance run wild and strike a league with the wolf and the fox. So is your pastoral life whirled past and... ...d at a moment’s warning. To them the village was literally a com munity, a league for mutual defence, and you would suppose that they would not go a ... ...ich had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members of the family, to humanized, methought, to roast well. They stood a... ...e field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On ev... ..., as I saw on looking nearer, had al ready divested him of several of his members. They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifeste... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants....

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...days when you might travel the world over without finding any- thing but a Republican. Anyhow, they went round the world. I think an anecdote is about... ...nsive (you had to take the Grand Duke and a good many of his suite and any members of the diplomatic bodies that might be there)—Florence and Leonora,... ...d what chance had I against those three hardened gamblers, who were all in league to conceal their hands from me? What earthly chance? They were three... ...dd, obstinate way, did not like my presence. But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions. Florence had her own sitting- room. Sh... ... They were curious old creatures, those two. It was almost as if they were members of an ancient family under some curse—they were so gentlewomanly, s... ...oom as fresh as Venus rising from any of the couches that are mentioned in Greek legends. Her room door was locked because she was nervous about thiev... ...d discovered it was only that he was a Democrat. My own people were mostly Republicans. It seemed to make it worse and more darkly mysteri- ous to the... ...ne evening she went into Edward’s gun-room—he had gone to a meeting of the National Reserve Committee. On the table beside his chair was a decanter of... ... and reclining amidst dark- ness, upon cold rocks, like one of the ancient Greek damned, in Tartarus or wherever it was. 160 The Good Soldier And as ...

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...on of plays is to be abolished because it may hinder the growth of a great national drama; but the Office of Examiner of Plays shall be continued; and... ...ble to ask questions there concerning his proceedings, especially now that members have discovered a method of doing this indirectly. And so on, and s... ...oth by the interests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their members are party politicians, by the votes at the back of those inter- est... ...em; and this was a heavy risk to run on the chance of “a great and serious national drama” ensuing on the removal of the Lord Chamberlain’s veto on Mr... ... the plight of many a manager to whom the modern advanced drama is so much Greek; but they did feel 11 Shaw very strongly the need of being protected... ...in to many worthy and pious people. They are at present con- demned by the Greek and Roman Catholic censor- ships as unfit for general reading. A cens... ...ady to lay down his life for the right of every man to advocate Atheism or Republicanism if he believes in them. An attack on morals may turn out to b... ...n but 29 Shaw solely because he occupied it, thus affirming the ex- treme republican principle that all kings, good or bad, should be killed because ... ...vice at St. Paul’s, or the Liberals to attend the meetings of the Primrose League would be resented as an insuffer- able tyranny. But a law to shut up...

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...e over the city and permitted the inhabitants to practise their own faith, Greek Christianity. Prior to the Mongol invasion, which brought conflagrati... ...if it warred for its existence it warred not less for its faith, which was Greek. Indeed, as the nation grew stron- ger and became conscious of its st... ...round them—ac- cording to the taste of that warlike and troublous time, of leagues and battles prevailing in the Ukraine after the union. Everything w... ... than the rest, because farther removed from all experience. Moreover, the republican constitution of the academy, the fearful multitude of young, hea... ...et, crowded with mechanics exercising their trades, and with people of all nationalities who thronged this suburb of the Setch, re- sembling a fair, a... ...r heels. The earth hummed dully all about, and afar the air resounded with national dance tunes beaten by the clanging heels of their boots. But one s... ...r their magnanimous protection, while Dante could not find a corner in his republican birth- place. She said that true geniuses arise at the epoch of ... ... all the others seemed to his as night to day. But of a sudden, one of the members present, an ecclesiastical personage if I mistake not, made a remar...

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...duced such a degree of darkness that, at Glaumba, which is more than fifty leagues from the mountain, people could only find their way by groping. Dur... ...way by groping. During the eruption of Vesuvius, in 1794, at Caserta, four leagues distant, people could only walk by the light of torches. On the fir... ... failed to en- tertain clearly, or has sacrificed in its expression to his national love of point, is, doubtless, the very tenable one that the higher... ...ook down upon all, — I love to regard these as themselves but the colossal members of one vast animate and sentient whole—a whole whose form (that of ... ...t dark niche which has been already mentioned as forming a part of the Old Republican prison, and as fronting the lattice of the Marchesa, a figure mu... ...the decora of what is technically called keeping, or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wan- dered from object to object, and rested upon none... ... from object to object, and rested upon none—neither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge c... ... my arm as he sauntered around the apartment, “here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, a... ...led, I remembered, in a cloak; and none had been worn at all by any of the members of our party with the exception of myself. Retaining some presence ...

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...nt indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let ... ...ct The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true prin- ciples of republican government Its analogy to your own state constitution and lastly... ...ead of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government. It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted... ...f the convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for... ...us II. found means to accomplish that formidable 26 The Federalist Papers league,* which gave a deadly blow to the power and pride of this haughty re... ...the late menacing disturbances in Pennsylvania, and the actual insur- *The League of Cambray, comprehending the Emperor, the King of France, the King ... ...advocates of despotism have drawn arguments, not only against the forms of republican government, but against the very principles of civil liberty. Th... ... had become, in fact, satellites of the orbs of primary magnitude. Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they wou... ...ts former oppressor. The latter expedient was adopted. The contests of the Greeks always afforded a pleasing opportunity to that powerful neighbor of ...

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...on of his pupil. I have no remem brance of the time when I began to learn Greek; I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest... ...committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me... ... it is true, the bad as well as the good points, both of individual and of national character, come more to the surface, and break out more fearlessly... ...eriod of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, one of those who had never bent 36 Autobiography the knee to B... ... so called con 47 John Stuart Mill sisted at first of no more than three members, one of whom, being Mr. Bentham’s amanuensis, obtained for us permi... ...y against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasioned by so long and costly a war, rendered... ...he deemed essentials; he was com paratively indifferent to monarchical or republican forms— far more so than Bentham, to whom a king, in the characte... ...s, to a conference with the lead ing members of the Council of the Reform League; and the task fell chiefly upon myself, of persuading them to give u... ...ir meeting at the Agricultural Hall; the only meeting called by the Reform League which I ever attended. I had always declined being a member of the L...

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... his best pages, is always strained. To use the expressive metaphor of the Greek athletes, he “smells of the oil.” When one recalls that when attacked... ... anything, as they looked upon that silent protest as the safeguard of the national 28 De Maupassant honor. It seemed to the peasants that thus they ... ...ful adversary, in the great, sanguine form of Doctor Massarel, head of the Republican party in the district, venerable chief of the Masonic lodge, pre... ...the other side of the square, and hurriedly sent three dispatches: “To the Members of the Republican Government, at Paris”; “To the New Republican Pre... ...of the square, and hurriedly sent three dispatches: “To the Members of the Republican Government, at Paris”; “To the New Republican Prefect of the Low... ... placed in front of the door, and I commenced to gnaw with hunger the lean members of the Normandy chicken, to drink the clear cider, and to munch the... ...minated the immense ocean of pale mountain peaks, which stretched for many leagues around him. It seemed as if this vague brightness arose from the sn... ...n there to lay it, or the queer story of Jean Pila’s dog, who had gone ten leagues to bring back his master’s breeches which a tramp had stolen while ... ...country celebrated for its scenery and its monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease th...

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...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ... then bought a work on algebra in Cincinnati; but having no teacher it was Greek to me. My life in Georgetown was uneventful. From the age of five or ... ...d brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. His oldest brother was a Republican and brave soldier during th... ...ss at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my father had been members of the same debating society (where they were generally pitted on o... ...ng as Ohio years, to me. At last all the examinations were passed, and the members of the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of ser... ...; the Know-Nothing party had taken its place, but was on the wane; and the Republican party was in a chaotic state and had not yet received a name. It... ...icity would prob- ably at that day have been attributed to witchcraft or a league with the Devil. Immaterial circumstances had changed as greatly as m...

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...ing room, which like all the rooms in the house was exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one behind each chair—stood wait- ... ...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ...verity to his wife was wrong and that *The Illuminati sought to substitute republican for mo- narchical institutions. 246 War & Peace he was neglecti... ...ans. Besides being advocates of bold action, this section also represented nationalism, which made them still more one-sided in the dispute. They were... ...rred to him: if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer. So he wrote Le russe Besuhof... ...Napoleon bowed his head and remained silent a long time. “At eight hundred leagues from France, I will not have my Guard destroyed!” he said, and turn... ...... A man who doesn’t know Paris is a savage. Y ou can tell a Parisian two leagues off. Paris is T alma, la Duchenois, Potier, the Sorbonne, the boule... ...he has committed so successfully, he reaches Paris, the dissolution of the republican government, which a year earlier might have ruined him, has reac... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...