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...ory - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt d... ...to the very demons they helped to exorcise. Most freedom fighters are disgruntled members of the middle classes or the intelligentsia. They bring ... ...ndred and forty five bands were in the mountains. Serbian and Bulgarian comitadjis, Greek andartes, Albanians and Vlachs... all waging a terrorist w... ...flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered national aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at... ...l aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity an... ...endship was tilted more savagely than ever before by the paranoia and the whims of nationalism gone berserk. In this world of self reflecting look... ...y. In 1912 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece - former bitter foes - formed the Balkan League to confront an even more bitter foe, the Ottoman Empire o... ... he in effect sealed his own death warrant. The IMRO teamed up with the Military League (an organization of disgruntled officers, both active dut... ...anyone who did not think, that the Liberals (the Australian equivalent of American Republicans) were fascists. There was not a hint of tolerance or...

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...s that it's the school to settle for if you can't make it to any of the Ivy League schools. And you're always reminded of how you didn't make it, es... ...enue. I guess they're telling us that UCI is just as good as any of the Ivy League schools. Somehow, I don't think street names and apartment courts... ...same Christ that preached against the sins of greed and avarice. The church members of Unity Mission probably missed that particular sermon. I think... ...e? I know he wouldn't drive any of those cars. I guess Unity Mission Church members don't practice what Jesus preaches. Gabriel points his finger at... ...stares at me like a puppy that just peed on the rug. Young man, what is your nationality? the old lady asks, not knowing that her inquiry “ ” is qui... ...rlier so I'm not about to make my day worse by messing with an old lady. My nationality is American, I reply correctly. “ ” No, no. What is your nati... ...least, I look at a full-length mirror and picture myself with the body of a Greek god. Actually, this isn't usually what I do, but I might as well s... ...t it. Did you know that John McCain was born in Panama but still became the Republican frontrunner for President? He was born on a military base but...

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..., and philosophical, literary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, a... ...ary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, as in continental Europe, i... ...antism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Re- formed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, Anabaptist, Seventh- Day Adventists, the Esta... ...t, point of view, trend of thought, attitude of mind, or mode of action : republican form of government, a true democrat and a con- servative stat... ... the classics, a realistic novel. 8. The names of monastic orders and their members: Black Friars, Dominican, Jesuitism. 9. The proper (official) t... ...tical, commercial, and industrial organiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeav... ... capitalize such general, paraphrastic, or incomplete designations as- the national assembly, the legislature of the state, the upper house of Cong... ...as designations for parties, classes, movements, etc. (see 7) : Protestant League, Holy Alliance, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents... ... McKinley, president of the United States; B. L. Gildersleeve, professor of Greek (see 42); Ferdinand W. Peck, commis- sioner-general to the Paris E...

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... is a throwback to darker ages of religious zealotry, pernicious bigotry, virulent nationalism, and the capricious misrule of the mighty. According... ...its ever-changing demonic emissaries - from Hitler to Saddam Hussein. There is no national consensus about America's external ethos. Some American... ...f the United States during the 19th century. Later, Rome claimed to be "liberating" Greek cities (from Macedonian domination and other Middle Easter... ... learned the lesson and succumbed to Roman hegemony. Roman culture - constructed on Greek foundations - permeated the nascent empire and Latin becam... ... forces and the "mob" (the masses) as political players spelt doom for Senatorial, republican Rome. Some are comparing the relentlessly increasing ... ...ing weight of the Pentagon since 1941 to the rise to prominence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army i... ...0 years of the Politburo). But is this a sufficient incentive (or deterrent)? The members of the various elites in Western democracies are mobile ... ...s is smaller than Mexico's (or Spain's, adds The Economist). According to the Arab League, the gross national product of all its members amounted t... ...lion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the 22 members of the Arab League, Afghanistan and Iran combined - or about half our value-...

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................................................. 38 Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. ......................................................... ................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ... benched and seated; as many as Thirteen Hundred chosen Patriots; Assembly Members not a few. Barnave, the two Lameths are seen there; occa- sionally ... ...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...anecdote. One night, a couple of brother Jacobins are doorkeepers; for the members take this post of duty and honour in rotation, and admit none that ... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ...sh obscurely into Limbo. (See Deux Amis, v. 199.) Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. Such dim masses, and specks of even deepest black, wor... ...man: spake of Achille du Chatelet’s Placard; of a Journal to be called The Republican; of preparing men’s minds for a Republic. “A Republic?” said the...

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...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ricolour sashes speak encouragement and well-speed-ye. Nay finally ‘twelve Members of the Legislative go daily, ’ not to encourage only, but to bear a... ...m the far valley D’Aure in the folds of the Pyrenees, is coming; an ardent Republican; doomed to fame, at least in death. All manner of Patriot men ar... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...: the figure of Danton has too much of the ‘Sardanapalus character, ’ at a Republican Rolandin Dinner-table: Clootz, Speaker of Man- kind, proses sad ... ...ay at Bourges, which is a quiet episcopal Town, in quiet Berri, forty good leagues off? In that case, what profit were it for the Paris Sansculottery ... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...y morning, changing their hiding place, as they have often to do, ‘about a league from Saint-Emilion, they observe a great crowd of country-people;’ d...

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...ildish attempts to induce neutrals and simple-minded paci- fists of allied nationality to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations.... ... the Allies have none of this defi- niteness in their task. The aim of the national intelligence in each of the allied countries is not to exalt one’s... ... Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-fide individuals, but members of a nationalist conspiracy to gain economic controls. The German i... ...nch; the English will never think nor talk clearly until the get clerical “Greek” and sham “humanities” out of their public schools and sincere study ... ...r the next fifty years. They are bound to play a central part in the World League for the Preservation of Peace that must follow this struggle. There ... ...hat the English are doing….” “Have I ever told you the story of compulsory Greek at Oxford and Cambridge?” I asked abruptly. “What has that to do with... ...bolition rests now entirely upon four or five great powers. Next comes the League of Peace idea; that there should be an International T ribunal for t... ...me share in the indepen- dence of America, that there is a sacred cause in republican- ism, that there are grounds for a peculiar sympathy between Fra... ...re grounds for a peculiar sympathy between France and the United States in republican institutions. They do not realise that Germany and America have ...

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... about a world settlement that does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? ... ...y to a change under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hi... ...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ... its tradition from Magna Charta onward, the legal training of most of its members, all make towards a reverence for private ownership and private cla... ...an they do now, and they will in many cases be learning Russian instead of Greek or German. More of our boys will be going into the public service, an... ...pe that the Oxford and Cambridge of unphilosophical classics and Little-go Greek for everybody, don’s mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura... ...inter- nal organisation. But whenever one thinks of the possibili- ties of Republican development in Europe as an outcome of this war, it is to realis... ... is nothing to reciprocate the sympathy and pride that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise that th...

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... little, and, secondly, only tell a little of what they know. As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in “sheepskin,” were you to know re... ...gar- rison were under arms to receive the illustrious Prince and the other members of the expedition—who forth- with repaired to Plantation House, and... ...ns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek super- stition, and adored for his mildness and benevolence of dispos... ...e the same night, and came to anchor at Val de la Haye on the Seine, three leagues below Rouen. Here the next morning (10th), it was met by the flo- t... ...lla, which arrived the same day at Rouen. At Rouen salutes were fired, the National Guard on both sides of the river paid military honors to the body;... ...count from which the above particulars are borrowed, “the authorities, the National Guard, and the people flocked to the pas- sage of the flotilla, de... ...by— The Prefects of the Seine and Police, &c. The Mayors of Paris, &c. The Members of the Old Guard, &c. A Squadron of Light Dragoons, &c. Lieutenant-... ...n their shields, after the fashion of Desaix’s scutcheon yonder?— the bold Republican who led the crowning charge at Marengo, and sent the best blood ...

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...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ..., my uncle was in the character of his intellect; there he fell a thousand leagues below my mother, to whom he looked up with affectionate astonish- m... ...which young academicians are placed in the family of a professor. Here, as members of a private household, and that household under the presiding eye ... ...iest application of their vast in- fluence, that they have the power to be republican, as re- spects their internal condition. Literature, by substitu... ...dition. Literature, by substituting a different standard of rank, tends to republican equality; and, as one instance of this, properly belonging to th... ...es of the classical poetry—with the nod of the Olympian Jove, or the seven-league strides of Neptune? Flying Childers had the most prodigious stride o...

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...on- veying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. Among the Paris crowd, who are supposed to be so clever, th... ...ve at her command. During all these preparations—odd, to say the least—the National Guardsman studied the furniture of the room in which he found hims... ...llage situated on the furthest frontier of Lorraine, were compelled by the Republican conscription to set out with the so-called army of the Rhine. In... ...ds. To maintain her place in the esteem of this blameless and spotless old republican—of whom Napoleon had said, “That brave old Hulot is the most obs... ...they were alone together, she had tried to destroy Adeline’s nose, a truly Greek nose, which the old mothers admired. Though she was beaten for this m... ...ard manual labor or undertake an important work in sculpture. All this was Greek to Lisbeth Fischer. She replied to the unhappy man that Paris offered... ... the god as much as in his own. And Monsieur Marneffe seemed at a thousand leagues from suspecting that the Jupiter of his office intended to descend ... ...ixiou; the magnates of the War Office, of the Coun- cil of State, and many members of the two Chambers; also the most distinguished of the Polish exil... ...Brazil,” replied the Baron. “I will make her my wife. My uncle left me ten leagues square of entailed estate; that is 356 Cousin Betty how I still ha...

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... and resign the Crown. Harold would do no such thing. The barons of France leagued together round Duke William for the invasion of England. Duke Willi... ...h, to what was called a Committee of Government: consisting of twenty four members: twelve chosen by the Barons, and twelve chosen by himself. But, at... ...for the destruction of the people, a cer tain terrible composition called Greek Fire, which could not be put out with water, but only burnt the fierc... ...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...o man cared a rush for, and that was a dangerous place to hold. The Nobles leagued against him, because the King liked him; and they lay in wait, both... ...ople who had suffered from them. He also called about his bed the enriched members of the Woodville family, and the proud lords whose honours were of ... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time... ...sts (who called themselves Fifth Monarchy Men), and among the disappointed Republicans. He had a diffi cult game to play, for the Royalists were alwa... ...ut not until there had been very serious plots between the Royal ists and Republicans, and an actual rising of them in England, when they burst into ...

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................................................ 202 Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. ......................................................... ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...is provincial assembly is to be prorogued this same day: Vivarais Assembly-members applaud, and the shouts of congregated men. Will victorious Analysi... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ...of the Year; which had otherwise suffered grievously by drought. For sixty leagues round Paris espe- cially, the ruin was almost total. (Marmontel, iv... ... him, will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist satires, in Republican didactic Almanacks. (Actes des Apotres (by Peltier and others); ... ...ng, then shall it be a battle-banner (say, an Italian Gonfalon, in its old Republican Carroccio); and shall tower up, car-borne, shining in the wind: ...

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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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...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...is provincial assembly is to be prorogued this same day: Vivarais Assembly-members applaud, and the shouts of congregated men. Will victorious Analysi... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satel... ...of the Year; which had otherwise suffered grievously by drought. For sixty leagues round Paris especially, the ruin was almost total. (Marmontel, iv. ... ... the Commons have a ‘double representation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when o... ... him, will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist satires, in Republican didactic Almanacks. (Actes des Apotres (by Peltier and others); ... ... has halted and harangued so often, on the march; spent nine hours on four leagues of road. At Montreuil, 238 The French Revolution: V ol. One close ...

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...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...nies will not admit of a divided accommodation; and the second is that the republican nature of the people will not brook a superior or aristo- cratic... ...the other. The ways of the people seemed to be quiet, smooth, orderly, and republican. There is nothing to drink in Port- land, of course; for, thanks... ...tood. The accommoda- tion also for the ministers of the government and for members of the two Houses has been insufficient. Hotels, lodgings, and furn... ...he roads around it are worse. I had the honor of meeting two distinguished members of the Provincial Parliament at din- ner some few miles out of town... ...h it has al- ways given when joined with a strong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywor... ... It is not uncommon to see in front of a square brick house a wooden quasi-Greek portico, with a pedi- ment and Ionic columns, equally high with the h... ...ruth reached the consideration of im- portant subjects, and that they were leagues beyond that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that mo...

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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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...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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...s carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a suf... ...ent instrument by which war may be ended for ever. In 1913 talk of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o... ...t, to the idea of a sort of Super-State, a Parliament of Mankind, a “Super National” Authority, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the exist... ... wider one. It is quite understandable that peoples aware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, sho... ...of Nations idea, is to think of some very elaborate and definite scheme of members on the model of existing legislative bodies, called together one ha... ...old-fashioned King and more of the modern President about it than the most republican-minded of us could have anticipated. For the first time in a Kin... ...purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the select man of the whole nation... ...acedonia, for instance, there is a jumble of Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian villages always jostling one another and maintaining an ... ...y than intervention in an 24 In the Fourth Year external quarrel. Could a Greek village in Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the ...

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...o save the secretaries who sit in the bu- reaus from a too rapid influx of members of Congress. This statement I by no means indorse; but it is undoub... ...ghts is picturesque, but nei- ther large nor good. It has before it a high Greek colon- nade, which seems to be almost bigger than the house itself. H... ...would be very fatal to the society of Washington. It was not only that the members of Congress were not there. As to very many of the Representatives,... ...787, the different States endeavored to make their way in the world simply leagued together by certain articles of confederation. It was declared that... ... independence; and that the said States then entered severally into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense. There was no... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ... Democrat, that is, to hold South- ern politics, and unfashionable to be a Republican, or to hold anti-Southern politics. In that way the South has li...

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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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...abylon), in which every traveller might, for a modest remuneration, take a republican seat; the mercenary caroche, with its private freight; the brisk... ... the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addiso... ...ewith to garnish the hotel, and all the Irish in Paris were invited to the national festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pa... ...en the chieftain. So true it is, that if fortune is a parasite, grief is a republican, and visits the hall of the great and wealthy as it does the hum... ... what a dinner we’ll serve you to-day.” Jools wrote off to his paper— “The members of the haughty and luxurious English aristoc- racy, like all the re... ...e, and I have good cause to know his power. Gujputi is an enchanter: he is leagued with devils; he is invulnerable. Look,” said I, unsheathing my dagg... ...in and ran—the whole host ran as one man: their screams might be heard for leagues. “Tomasha, tomasha,” they cried, “it is enchantment!” A way they fl... ...Palestine, he had sojourned in Constantinople, and learned the arts of the Greek. He is a cogger of dice, I tell thee—a chanter of horseflesh. He won ... ...UCH. I WA S ALWAYS FOND OF BILLIARDS: and, in former days, at Grogram’s in Greek Street, where a few jolly lads of my ac- quaintance used to meet twic...

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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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...h are very destructive to the shipping in the river, and are felt for many leagues at sea. They are usually preceded by lightning. The captain told... ...wn like a four hours’ shower bath, and we found ourselves drifted nearly ten leagues from the anchorage; and having light head winds, we did not retu... ...’ll be King but Charlie?’’ the Italians and Spaniards screamed through some national affairs, for which I was none the wiser; and we three Yankees ma... ...three Yankees made an attempt at the ‘‘Star span gled Banner.’’ After these national tributes had been paid, the Austrian gave us a very pretty litt... ...t George had been at college, (probably a naval one, as he knew no Latin or Greek,) where he learned French and mathe- matics. He was by no means th... ...if he has any knowledge of seamen, attending to it personally. One of the members of the firm to which our ship belonged, Mr. S——, had been himself... ...morality, and good government, by that peculiar invention of Anglo Saxon Republican America, the solemn, awe inspir ing Vigilance Committee of ...

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...ion.’ In the absence of Rothes, Sharpe presided– much to the wrath of some members; and as he imagined his own safety endan- gered, his measures were ... ...whom it looked; and my next most disagreeable remembrance is of a bracing, Republican postman in the city of San Francisco. I lived in that city among... ...s that the sovereign power should be small. Great powers are slow to stir; national affronts, even with the aid of newspa- pers, filter slowly into po... ...en with the aid of newspa- pers, filter slowly into popular consciousness; national losses are so unequally shared, that one part of the population wi... ...paring note- books. A reserved rivalry sunders them. Here are some deep in Greek particles: there, others are already inhabitants of that land ‘Where ... ... dialectic nightmares– is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Greeks and Romans, too, are reserved as sort of general- utility men, to do... ...eal lively discussion. Indeed, you feel a growing contempt for your fellow-members; and it is not until you rise yourself to hawk and hesitate and sit... ...t ‘kindly perspective,’ which lets a wheat-stalk near the eye cover twenty leagues of dis- tant country, and makes the humble circle about a man’s hea...

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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 ...