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... action of the individual is precluded . It is a common relationship , and there are none exempt from its conditions , and none in the nation can make their lives to be as if it had not been . There are none unaf- fected by it , but each ...
... action of the individual is precluded . It is a common relationship , and there are none exempt from its conditions , and none in the nation can make their lives to be as if it had not been . There are none unaf- fected by it , but each ...
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... action is not mechanical . The members are formed in and through it , as they form it , and are not as the wheels in mills , and the shuttles that slide in looms , but the members of a living body . They are affected by it , not as by ...
... action is not mechanical . The members are formed in and through it , as they form it , and are not as the wheels in mills , and the shuttles that slide in looms , but the members of a living body . They are affected by it , not as by ...
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... action of the na- tion , are obeying the impulse of the mob , and are as the very fragments , for whom the Roman patrician felt such unmeasured scorn.1 The antithesis to the nation as an organic unity , is in the conception which frames ...
... action of the na- tion , are obeying the impulse of the mob , and are as the very fragments , for whom the Roman patrician felt such unmeasured scorn.1 The antithesis to the nation as an organic unity , is in the conception which frames ...
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... action does not proceed from mere impulse , and it is not directed by a merely aim- less energy , but there is in it that conscious spirit which apprehends an object before it , and apprehends it as its own . " The nation , " says M ...
... action does not proceed from mere impulse , and it is not directed by a merely aim- less energy , but there is in it that conscious spirit which apprehends an object before it , and apprehends it as its own . " The nation , " says M ...
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... action , but is strong and free only as it works it out . The people that fails to hold its calling carefully and reverently cannot attain a strong national life , and weakness and inevitable disaster result when its purpose is but ...
... action , but is strong and free only as it works it out . The people that fails to hold its calling carefully and reverently cannot attain a strong national life , and weakness and inevitable disaster result when its purpose is but ...
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Page 1 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Page 396 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 408 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 151 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Page 384 - I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that, without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Page 365 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 392 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?
Page 206 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Page 417 - That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 126 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest.