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...nverted version of apartheid. It faced the ubiquitous problem of all the other republics of former Yugoslavia - not one of them was ethnically ...

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...or manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. Most of these chapters were published originally in The Ledger of New York, and a few of them in The Youths' Companion of Boston, the largest two circulations in the country. I have occasionally had reason to think...

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...niteur, 1793, No. 140, &c.) Will you, O Girondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Ameri- 113 Thomas Carlyle cans;...

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...d to know what one had crossed that odious Atlantic for but to get away from republics. “Why, madam, sitting in the Champs Elysees, opposite to the Pa...

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...b Emirates UK United Kingdom US United States USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) YAR Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) Dates of i... ...f skilled labor reported Government Official name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Type: Communist state Capital: Moscow Administrative divisions:... ... Administrative divisions: 15 union repub- lics, consisting of 20 autonomous republics, 6 krays, 123 oblasts, 8 autonomous oblasts, and 10 autonomous ... ...programs; main TV centers in Moscow and Leningrad plus 11 more in the Soviet republics; hundreds of TV stations; 85,000,000 TV sets; 162,000,000 recei... ...te, federal republic in form Capital: Belgrade Administrative divisions: six republics Legal system: mixture of civil law system and Communist legal t... ...ranches: bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly Federal Chamber, Chamber of Republics and Provinces); executive in- cludes cabinet (Federal Executive... ...Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Tuvalu c Uganda Union of Soviet Socialist Republics United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Vanua...

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...for the first time since 1989. This week, after 12 years of abortive contacts, the republics of the former Yugoslavia agreed with the Russian Feder... ... poverty line. Strains between well to do newcomers, mainly from the former Soviet republics, and impoverished veterans are growing - as do tension...

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...and remained in the fortress of Genoa until peace was declared between the two republics, in July of the following year. During his imprisonment, he w...

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...ante speaks highly of him in his poetry, and Francis I of France commissioned extensive artwork treating Livian themes; Niccolò Machiavelli's work on republics, the Discourses on Livy is presented as a commentary on the History of Rome. Respect for Livy rose to lofty heights. (Summary adapted from Wikipaedia by Karen Merline.)...

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...what they fleeced from these poor drudges; but obliged, as the Co- lombian Republics are at this day, to make of every alteration a revolution; no way...

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...ntend for the prize of human excellence? The polypus nature of the Grecian republics, in which every individual enjoyed a separate life, and if it wer...

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...all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities. Principalities are either hereditary, in which... ...II CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES I will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, a... ...ilent on them, although one could be more copiously treated when I discuss republics. These methods are when, either by some wicked or nefarious ways,... ...it came to pass that Italy fell partly into the hands of the Church and of republics, and, the Church consisting of priests and the republic of citize... ... one will consider how Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, and many republics and princes have armed and orga- nized themselves, to which rules... ...eal truth of the matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and principalities which in fact have never been known or seen, b...

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...ways remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in dang... ...the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient Republics. In them there were distinct orders, a nobility and a people, o... ...or of their public works are among the imperish able glories of the ancient republics. The roads and aq ueducts of Rome have been the admiration of ... ...y did unfriendly or speculative theorists anticipate for us the fate of past republics, but the fears of many an honest patriot overbalanced his sangu... ...sfigure our system. It may be ob served, however, as a general remark, that republics can commit no greater error than to adopt or continue any featu... ...ct of this duty the best historians agree in attributing the ruin of all the republics with whose existence and fall their writings have made us acqua... ...hat of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror. We have examples of republics where the love of coun try and of liberty at one time were the... ...nt or even the suspicion of corruption. Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of ... ...r resources or our genius, notably on our own conti nent, where a galaxy of Republics reflects the glory of new world democracy, but in the new order...

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...f a necessarily corrupt oligarchy. Democracy in the most democratic modern republics: Prance and the United States for example, is an imposture and a ...

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... morality, was seldom done without some twinges of conscience. The ancient republics, being mostly grounded from the first upon some kind of mutual co...

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...ow im- becile, in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities. A rough bit of road beneath the motor tyres, ...

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..., a hatchet, a pomegranate, or a hammer; those who had served in the Greek republics, the side-view of a citadel or the name of an archon; and some we...

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...politics rest on necessary foundations, and cannot be treated with levity. Republics abound in young civilians, who believe that the laws make the cit...

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...niteur, 1793, No. 140, &c.) Will you, O Girondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Americans; so that there be no M...

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...l then have his first real chance. He will be unanimously invited by those Republics to return from his exile and act as Superpresident of all the rep...

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...han the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the great- est number have begun their career by paying an obseq... ...enient), or split into three or four indepen- dent and probably discordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to France, an... ... States, though dismembered and alienated from each other. The genius of republics (say they) is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to ... ...ose inflammable hu- mors which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste them- selves in ruino... ...han general or remote considerations of policy, utility or jus- tice? Have republics in practice been less addicted to war than monarchies? Are not th... ... an answer to these inquiries. Sparta, Athens, Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind. Yet we... ...ies spring up out of the contentions which so often distracted the ancient republics of Greece? Different answers, equally satisfactory, may be given ... ... nation of soldiers, which was the true con- dition of the people of those republics. The means of rev- enue, which have been so greatly multiplied by... ...action and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disg...

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... of its citizens, a mode of thinking which may have been admissible in small republics sur rounded by powerful enemies, in constant peril of being su...

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...mines, into Egyptian bonds, or the precarious securities of South American republics, attests the same general pressure which increases with every dev...

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...ings, a similar revolt from the Spaniards. To the Pope and all the Italian republics no in- ducement could be more powerful than the hope of driving t... ...ic states. If the Catholics could arm Spain and Italy in their favour, the republics of Venice, Holland, and England, opened their treasures to the Pr...

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...s uses every means in its power to perpetu- ate itself. This is as true of republics as of monarchies, al- though the severity of punishment and the a...

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...chical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon ...