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...ttlers to value good leadership and respect their chiefs, they tumble into Republics.’ Patrick would have liked to fling a word in about the Englishma...

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...ces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner. The fa- mous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more h... ...ces with his hands the still quivering limbs of his prisoner. The fa- mous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more h... ...studying the laws which were promulgated at this first era of the American republics, it is impossible not to be struck by the remarkable acquaintance... ...r their laws and customs may be: if man makes monarchies and estab- lishes republics, the first association of mankind seems con- stituted by the hand... ...le of the sovereignty of the people in the United States: all the American republics recognize it more or less; but cir- cumstances have peculiarly fa... ...rded as a demonstrated truth. This theory, which was nearly unknown to the republics of antiquity – *As in the State of New York. 103 Tocqueville whi... ...ness lies in certain details of the action of the Government. The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented mi- nority; ... ...t will not, then, as has often been asserted, prove the destruction of the republics of the New World; far from supposing that the American gov- ernme... ...f them. Confederations have existed in other countries beside America, and republics have not been established upon the shores of the New World alone;...

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...s to the hour; diamonds of price came safely to the hands of their owners; Republics rested content with their Dictators; diplomats found no one whose...

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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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... but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one fine morni...

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...es are, in like manner, manifest in states and governments; king- doms and republics are founded, flourish, and decay with age as we do. We are subjec... ... whom they countenance against me.” Is it not a noble farce wherein kings, republics, and emperors have so many ages played their parts, and to which ...

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...ark. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering about th...

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...y illogi- cal cases by the assertion (drawn from the French instance) that Republics are unstable. But it does not follow that be- cause one condemns ...

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