The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 7J. Ridgeway and sons, 1838 - English periodicals |
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... legislation was devised for an agricultural people , — inevitable necessity converted them into a maritime one ; and successful valour , combined with politic moderation , placed Athens at the head of " all the islands , " - the centre ...
... legislation was devised for an agricultural people , — inevitable necessity converted them into a maritime one ; and successful valour , combined with politic moderation , placed Athens at the head of " all the islands , " - the centre ...
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... legislation of Ly- curgus obtained upon the habits of his countrymen . And , since it was the principal aim of his system to produce the discipline of habit rather than any more spiritual control upon the feelings and conscience , his ...
... legislation of Ly- curgus obtained upon the habits of his countrymen . And , since it was the principal aim of his system to produce the discipline of habit rather than any more spiritual control upon the feelings and conscience , his ...
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... legislation to the complicate web of political in- terests and action that proceeded from the Peloponnesian war ... legislation , showed the insecurity of the oligarchy and the futility of half- measures in reform . Solon's legislation ...
... legislation to the complicate web of political in- terests and action that proceeded from the Peloponnesian war ... legislation , showed the insecurity of the oligarchy and the futility of half- measures in reform . Solon's legislation ...
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... legislation therefore , " Mr. Bulwer says , was no vague collection of inapplicable principles . It was moulded to the habits , the manners , and the condition of the people whom it was intended to enlighten , to harmo- nize , and to ...
... legislation therefore , " Mr. Bulwer says , was no vague collection of inapplicable principles . It was moulded to the habits , the manners , and the condition of the people whom it was intended to enlighten , to harmo- nize , and to ...
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... legislation . The rich were exposed to unjust and constant exactions ; and society was ever liable to be disorganized by attacks upon property . There was an eternal struggle between the jealousies of the populace and the fears of the ...
... legislation . The rich were exposed to unjust and constant exactions ; and society was ever liable to be disorganized by attacks upon property . There was an eternal struggle between the jealousies of the populace and the fears of the ...
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Page 202 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 194 - Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound...
Page 203 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 340 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 343 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 199 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 341 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 202 - God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better ordering and Preservation and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid; And by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 220 - Majesty, in full right, Canada, with all its dependencies, as well as the Island of Cape Breton, and all the other islands and coasts in the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence...