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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the l...

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...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ... upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that t... ...s great commentary, like those of Paul, was written for the benefit of all nations and people and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their... ...oroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this power of self- p... ...ing my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and poli... ...d purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- trol, except for general purposes, is the root and origin of a... ...the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations of Europe had to hope or fear from its final supremacy. That a yout... ...o check democracy would be in that case to resist the will of God; and the nations would then be constrained to make the best of the social lot awarde...

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... sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodi...

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...ays he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather give... ... at the stage wherein they become DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK—AN INCIDENT 3 united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and ... ...T—THE FLOCK—AN INTERIOR—ANOTHER INTERIOR ing the traditionary outlines and general form of the Ark which are followed by toy makers — and by these mea... ...ew born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of t... ...bility, induction — every kind of evidence in the logi cian’s list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. Farmer Oak ... ...united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and pro... ...Gabriel’s bosom thrilled gently as he thus slipped under the notice of the assembly the innermost subject of his heart. ‘We d’know little of her — not... ...ith a large stone trough, and all complete.’ ‘Dear, dear — how the face of nations alter, and what we live to see nowadays! Yes — and ’tis the same he... ...be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near. In spite of all this, the spirit of revelry was wanting...

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...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a sufficient in... ...ment 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-day the p... ...is not to express oneself but to swell a chorus. The idea of the League of Nations is so great a one that it may well over- ride the pretensions and c... ...d a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League of Nati... ...raight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding pa... .... I make no apology therefore, for casting my discussion of it in the most general terms. The idea is the idea of united human effort to put an end to... ...mpts of good to make good. It scarcely needs repeating here—it has been so generally said—that no League of Free Nations can hope to keep the peace un... ...y must be duly elected un- der conditions that are by the standards of the general league satisfactorily democratic. That seems to be only the com- mo...

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...” too, if they wanted them? Clearly this was no invention of his be- cause General Cass put forth the same doctrine in 1848 in his so called Nicholson... ...g. Then what was it that the “Little Giant” invented? It never occurred to General Cass to call his discovery by the odd name of popular sovereignty. ... ...question is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question... ...s very much afraid in the triumph that the Republican party will lead to a general mixture of the white and black races. Perhaps I am wrong in saying ... ...s that in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republ... ...1805, prescribing rules for the subdivision of sections of land within the United States system of surveys, standing unrepealed, in my opinion, is bin... ...ritory as the other does. A voice: I want to ask a question. Don’t foreign nations in- terfere with the slave trade? Mr. LINCOLN: Well! I understand i... ...COLN: Well! I understand it to be a principle of Democracy to whip foreign nations whenever, they interfere with us. V oice: I only asked for informat... ...either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, ...

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... disappointed or pained by the result.” This speech has not attracted much general attention, yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typ... ...d the standards set by these two men. It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individu- als, to advance the history of great deeds done in the... ...etary, Miss McIlvaine, to Major Henry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Henderson, of Illinois. For various courtesies received... ...s; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems’s Life of Washington. To the town constable’s he w... ...n their claims seemed to him unfair. Presenting his very first case in the United States Circuit Court, the only question being one of authority, he d... ...on Mexico, and he amused the Committee of the Whole by a witty attack upon General Cass. More important was the expression he gave to his antislavery ... ...854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the United States, the heritage of coming generations, to the invasion of slave... ...uld be declared against Spain and France by the United States; that expla- nations should also be sought from Russia and Great Brit- ain, and a vigoro... ...tches for revision and amendment with- out a murmur. The war with European nations was no 38 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One longer thought...

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...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...hey were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed to engage hand to hand; as Archilochus testifies in thes... ...ut in a differ- ent manner from the former; for her day is celebrated with general joy and revelling, but all the sacrifices performed to the latter a... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...heseus proclaimed when he thus set up a commonwealth, in a manner, for all nations. Yet he did not suffer his state, by the promiscuous multitude that... ...ad now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they e... ...dering over the greater part of the habitable world, and subduing numerous nations, fixed them- selves here, and, from their own great strength in war... ...ictor also follows in most points. Here again there are variations, but in general outline it runs thus: the kings of Alba reigned in lineal descent f... ...our brothers, and countrymen, that time, having now by the strictest bonds united us to those we once mortally hated, has made it impossible for us no...

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...; nay, may it not be noted further, that as the grown cat, and cat-species generally, is the cruellest thing known, so the merriest is precisely the k... ...e Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there does a National Assembly apply itself to the miraculous work. Successfully, had there been ... ...as he that the King’s Ministers should have seat and voice in the National Assembly;—doubtless with an eye to being Minister himself! Whereupon the Na... ...oo hot for them. O Cote Gauche, wor- thy are ye, as the adhesive Addresses generally say, to ‘fix the regards of the Universe;’ the regards of this on... ...ith a wish in it different from Mirabeau’s. Remark, on the other hand, how General Dumouriez has quitted Normandy and the Cherbourg Breakwater, to com... ...esplendent, and was thought to be a new celestial Sun for enlightening the Nations, had, as things all have, to work through its ap- pointed phases: i... ... or other?—Yet in this respect, of readiness for scenes, the difference of Nations, as of men, is very great. If our Saxon-Puritanic friends, for exam... ...are the mute representatives of their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations; who from out of that dark bewilderment gaze wistful, amazed, with ... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Des- tiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ra...

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...habitants must all have felt like brethren. They were fitted to become one united People at a future period. Perhaps their feelings of brother hood w... ...erhaps their feelings of brother hood were the stronger because different nations had formed settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and... ... good old gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his ... ...es, for mutual defence against their enemies. They called them selves the United Colonies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of... ...ney was still 25 Hawthorne more sensibly felt. T o supply the demand, the General Court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpenc... ...f a century after the arrival of the English the red men showed themselves generally inclined to peace and amity. They often made submission when they... ... an officer of the English army, arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and New York. The king had given such powers to Sir ... ...ced in the Earl of Lincoln’s hall. And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden convulsions or by slow degrees since tha... ... have taught him that the poor man’s hearth is sacred, and that armies and nations have no right to violate it. It should have made him feel that Engl...

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...hotel promptly. Every one knows that the Prince de Conde was so called. “A messenger from M. le Prince!” said Gaston, with an inquietude that escaped ... ...liness, assumed its best toilette with the help of brushes, brooms, and water. The kennels of the upper town, swollen by these continued lotions, beca... ... the younger, like a man of good heart, supported the loss with resignation, and the gain without insolence. He began by accustoming the public to sou... ...untenances of those that were present, if this humiliation had been prepared for him. But as he saw nothing upon the impassible visage of the cardinal... ...maitre d’hotel, who had really distinguished himself. The collation over, at a sign of approbation from M. de Mazarin, the king arose, and, at the inv... ...aps ensue if your marriage fails” (Mazarin stole a furtive glance at the king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fai... ...on — the nation is tired of these gentlemen who give themselves such barbarous names, and who sing songs 146 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 to it. Chantin... ...f the Fronde, the reconciliation of M. de Conde with the king, and the probable marriage of the infanta of Spain; but he avoided, as Athos himself avo... ...t it must abdi- cate — be dissolved — and yield its place to a government which would not be a joke. Monk pronounced this decla- ration, supported by ...

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... the following war, he was advanced to places of honor and trust under his general. After the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, he was sent into Spai... ...usness of the governors from time to time sent thither from Rome, they had generally an aversion to the Roman su- premacy. He, however, soon gained th... ... turn his arms, the Lusitanians sent ambassadors to desire him to be their general; for being terrified with the Roman power, and finding the necessit... ...is weak and slen- der beginning, he raised himself to the command of large nations of men, and the possession of numerous cities; and of the Roman com... ...y cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army grew great, for th... ...ces, and had the leading of numerous and warlike armies, made up of divers nations. This was peculiar to Sertorius, that the chief command was, by his... ...talcidas once being in dispute with an Athenian about the valor of the two nations, the Athenian boasted, that they had often driven the Spar- tans fr... ... now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both, and so under the cover of an action which carried all... ...whole course of so long a life never knew but the one woman to whom he was united in his first and only marriage. In the war of the slaves, which took...

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...s unfortunate, though very natural, that the history of this Period has so generally been written in hysterics. Exaggeration abounds, execration, wail... ... Universe (de l’Univers) is eligible; for in these very days we, by act of Assembly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priestley, bu... ... there, in the Townhall, these astonishing tricolor Municipals; in Council General; in Committee of Watchfulness (de Surveillance, which will even bec... ...lls in its carriage, while Patrio- tism cannot trail its cannon. To search generally for muni- tions of war, ‘in the houses of persons suspect, ’—and ... ...is part to do so. Brawny Danton is in the breach, as of stormed Cities and Nations; amid the Sweep of Tenth-of-August cannon, the rustle of Prussian g... ...ronde Respectability: To kill a king, and become the horror of respectable nations and persons? But then also, to save a king; to lose one’s footing w... ...ring this preliminary work. The rest, far as one reads, welter amid Law of Nations, Social Contract, Juristics, Syllogistics; to us barren as the East... ... At home this Killing of a King has divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; At... ...own side: and now there is no Election, or only the third of one. Black is united with white against this clause of the Two-thirds; all the Unruly of ...

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...ainted from designs by Boucher. Bath, table and love are therefore closely united. After the salon, which, I should tell you, my dear fellow, exhibits... ... o rightly understand the countess, my dear Nathan, you must know that the general is a violent man, red as fire, five feet nine inches tall, round as... ...the courage of a daring man; he lacks mind and breadth of view. Like other generals to whom mili- tary common-sense, the natural boldness of those who... ...ustification for the apparent ingratitude of the House of Austria. Neither nations nor kings are wealthy enough to reward all the devotions to which t... ...le creature handles her bobbins in a way to lead this heavy, solid, stolid general precisely as he himself used to lead his cuirassiers. If Montcornet... ...uture of her husband’s son by marrying him to Rigou’s only daugh- ter. The united fortunes of the Soudrys and the ex-monk, which would come eventually... ...tin through his wife, a Gaubertin-Vallat. Eighteen months pre- viously the united efforts of the two deputies, Monsieur de Soulanges and Gaubertin, ha... ...lle-aux-Fayes that Monsieur de Ronquerolles talked about our rights in the Assembly.” “That’s in Monsieur Rigou’s newspaper,” said Vaudoyer, who in hi... ...s it! Good God! what will the kings be soon? More than that, what will the nations themselves be fifty years hence under this state of things?” “But y...

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...is faith I hold as I hold it and I sketch out the principles by which I am generally trying to direct my life at the present time, because it interest... ... period of 7 H. G . Wells Greek freedom, when it must get to a common and general understanding upon what its ideas of truth, good, and beauty amount... ... half cen- tury there has begun a more systematic critical movement in the general mind, a movement analogous to the Pre- Raphaelite movement in art—a... ...e the vividly true and dominating point of view—our individuali- ties, our nations and states and races are but bubbles and clusters of foam upon the ... ... delusion of the permanent separateness of the individual and of races and nations, that so it turns upon itself and frets against itself and fails to... ...ert that this great and very definite personality in the hearts and imagi- nations of mankind does not and never has attracted me. It is a fact I reco... ...ollows:— “I can see no reason why even to-day a number of persons avowedly united in the same ‘Belief’ and recognizing each other as the self-constitu... ...re the regis- trar?’ and the answer would be, ‘No, we are Samurai and were united before the Elders.’ In Catholic countries those who use only the civ... ...l migration small, there have been far fewer such developments than in the United States of America. In England toleration has become an institution, ...

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...octor His life had been so blameless that no man in the army, not even the general himself, could approach him without an involuntary feeling of respe... ...hout, the children besieged the latch of a door that gave way before their united efforts, and slipped out of the worn staple that held it; and finall... ...sehold. Intellectual progress, to my thinking, was entirely dependent on a general improvement in the condi- tions of life. The presence of a butcher ... ... they already possess a practical turn which will make them conduce to the general welfare of the State. If old-es- tablished prejudices and customs b... ...faithful; I give this pledge to you to keep in the grave. We shall thus be united for ever, and through love of your children I will live on among the... ...sia a dozen times in the course of a century.” “Maybe it is easier for two nations to come to terms when the strife has arisen out of some question of... ...ys in which society has ben- efited by that power which has created modern nations and has inspired so many poems, so much music, so many ca- thedrals... ...the trampled rights of the suffering poor, were more often found among the nations of past ages than in our generation. The priesthood, also, which sp... ...the laws, can they rise above their own level? Nay. The more faithfully an assembly represents the opin- ions held by the crowd, the less it will know...

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...owed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind, therefore, to escape from my leading-strings;... ...d in the King’s army under the King himself. The Duc de Lux- embourg, sole general of his own army, covered the siege operations, and observed the ene... ...alting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united in friendship with Comte de Coetquen, who was in the same company wi... ...this, and said that to retreat at such a mo- ment would be to increase the general disorder. Then turn- ing to my father he ordered him to be prepared... ..., and that the coach of M. de Vardes should run against my father’s, and a general quarrel arise between mas- ters and servants. Under cover of this q... ...une, whom the consciousness of wit—of the insinuating and captivating kind—united with much ability, gracefulness of intellect, and learning, inspired... ...know why people have the fancy for these odd names, but they seduce in all nations, and they who feel the triviality of them, imitate them. It is true... ...ber that you are a Frenchman born, in order that the union between the two nations may be preserved; it will be the means of rendering both happy, and... ...blood, the King said—”Behold the Princes of my blood and of yours; the two nations from 162 Saint-Simon this time ought to regard themselves as one n...

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...ifice.’ At some risk of prolixity, enough of the surrounding events has in general been given to make the situation comprehen- sible, even without kno... ...iven to make the situation comprehen- sible, even without knowledge of the general history. This has been done in the hope that these extracts may ser... ...ave called forth the actions that delight us. And this enthusiasm is often united with the utmost tenderness of heart, the very appreciation of suffer... ...pus was killed by lightning, and the two sisters re- turned to Thebes. The united armies of the seven chiefs against Thebes came on, led by Polynices.... ...revenge his own wrongs by whispering incitements to invasion. ‘All people, nations, and languages,’ was the commencement of the decrees of that monarc... ...oast, for his satraps ruled over subject kingdoms, and among his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, th... ...aves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rite... ...ast blow that drove the Persians ingloriously from Greece. The Greeks then united in doing honor to the brave war- riors who, had they been better sup... ... conquering from the north and the Romans from the south, these two fierce nations at length came against one another. The old Roman story is that it ...

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... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...of my remarks this collective American edition, I will here attempt a rude general classification of all the articles which compose it. I distribute t... ...utobiographic Sketches illustrate what I mean. 9 Autobiographic Sketches Generally, they pretend to little beyond that sort of amuse- ment which att... ...ing as an insulated fac- ulty; or do so primarily. Let me call them by the general name of ESSAYS. These, as in other cases of the same kind, must hav... ...nspired truth every where sealed up; but a whisper ran through the western nations of Europe that the work of Tho- mas à Kempis contained some slender... ...erson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the same time it must not be denied, that, if you lose by a ... ... liberality altogether unknown amongst the corresponding orders in foreign nations. The establishment of servants, for instance, in such houses, measu... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...r one hour on this thy festival of Pentecost I make my servant—render thee united worship in this thy recovered temple.” Lo! the apparition plucks an ...

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...ulliver s Travels into Several Remote Gulliver s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Nations of the World Nations of the World Nations of... ... of the World Nations of the World Nations of the World Nations of the World Nations of the World THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. As given in the origina... ...is satisfied. But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs ... ...o not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than ... ...withdrew, with much civility and cheerful countenances. Soon after I heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of the words peplom selan; and ... ...around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. These fie... ...y to entertain me with several of the country shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 27 dexterity... ...ed several holy per Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 111 sons, as part of that assembly, under the title of bish ops, whose peculiar business is to tak... ...itional. But there happening few events of any moment among a people so well united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, an...

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...ng of Sweden, during his Majestie’s lifetime; and since under the Director-General, the Rex-Chancellor Oxensterne, and his Generals: collected and gat... ...nd reiterated specimens of the eloquence of the redoubted Ritt-master. The general idea of the char- acter is familiar to our comic dramatists after t... ... King, and making such a diversion as should at least compel the recall of General Leslie’s army out of England, if it did not recover a great part of... ...areth us record, that we aim altogether at the glory of God, peace of both nations, and honour of the King, in suppressing and punishing in a legal wa... ...h him the night before, respecting the worth and precedence of our several nations, it pleased him the next day to deliver his orders to me with the p... ...our own honour—temperate, firm, and 83 Sir Walter Scott manly, to keep us united. Such is the man that must com- mand us. Are you prepared, Thane of ... ...en looking at his horse; and, after praising his points and carriage, both united in strongly dissuading the Captain from taking an animal of such val... ...parations, whilk I have observed to spread perturbation among women of all nations, and almost all conditions. Nevertheless, Penthesilea, in ancient t... ...t Dalgetty could only dis- cern that the speaker who had thus mysteriously united him- self to their company, and mixed in their conversation, was a t...

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...ot understood in England; and chiefly from the differences between the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Q... ...titute the probationary act according to some views; but, according to the general theory, simply the inaugural act by which the new pastor places him... ... is to blame for that? Thirdly, can the congregation complain? They have a general interest in their spiritual guide. But as to the preference for ora... ... more highly educated, took a direct interest in the Scottish clergy, upon general principles of liberal interest in all that could affect religion, b... ...our modern contributions proceed for the purposes of missions to barbarous nations, of circulating the Scriptures, (whether through the Bible Society,... ... is thus al- ready made to what is technically known as Voluntaryism. The ‘United Secession,’ that is the old collective body of Scottish Dissenters, ... ...uation, combined with one of their two characteristic principles. The same United Secession journal openly anticipates an- other and more diffusive re... ... and least probable of the many evils threatened by the late schism, these nations would have reason by comparison almost to forget the rest. 43 Thom... ...rallel theme even in our own national archaeologies of two centuries back. United, however, with his great reading, this barrenness of the subject is ...