Political Fame. [By Rose Ellen Hendriks, afterwards Temple.]1847 |
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Page 3
... rule of conduct to go by ; it is for the politician to consider how each law's severity can be softened . At the period when Sesostris had brought Egypt to a high pitch of civilization , Europe was a barbarous chaos ; and why ? the men ...
... rule of conduct to go by ; it is for the politician to consider how each law's severity can be softened . At the period when Sesostris had brought Egypt to a high pitch of civilization , Europe was a barbarous chaos ; and why ? the men ...
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... rule and courage the latter was the dominant passion in the breasts of both kings ; but the monarch of a realm must unite the thoughts of a civilian to the courage of a warrior , or else he is but one individual at the mercy of ...
... rule and courage the latter was the dominant passion in the breasts of both kings ; but the monarch of a realm must unite the thoughts of a civilian to the courage of a warrior , or else he is but one individual at the mercy of ...
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... rule of honorable conduct being too often slighted , law has arisen to bind , to sanctify , to render impassable the contract which is made between nation and nation , man , and man ; but in some high and well - regu- lated minds ...
... rule of honorable conduct being too often slighted , law has arisen to bind , to sanctify , to render impassable the contract which is made between nation and nation , man , and man ; but in some high and well - regu- lated minds ...
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... he had made , restricting the liberty he had sworn to protect , endeavouring to rule by absolute monarchy , and to convert that Charles the Tenth . monarchy into tyranny . Odious idea of sove- reign might RIGHT AND MIGHT . 23.
... he had made , restricting the liberty he had sworn to protect , endeavouring to rule by absolute monarchy , and to convert that Charles the Tenth . monarchy into tyranny . Odious idea of sove- reign might RIGHT AND MIGHT . 23.
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... rule , to govern is to be governed in turn . Man's honour consists not in unlimited worship of self ; the barriers of society and law will never be infringed , except for ambitious , tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count ...
... rule , to govern is to be governed in turn . Man's honour consists not in unlimited worship of self ; the barriers of society and law will never be infringed , except for ambitious , tyrannic motives : a monarch ought never to count ...
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