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... Democracy - With the Revolutionaries ... 64 CHAPTER VI . - POLITICAL POETS , II . - The Call to Action- The American Democrats - An Ambassador of the People - The Prophet of the Western Republic - Inspiration for the Future- “ All for ...
... Democracy - With the Revolutionaries ... 64 CHAPTER VI . - POLITICAL POETS , II . - The Call to Action- The American Democrats - An Ambassador of the People - The Prophet of the Western Republic - Inspiration for the Future- “ All for ...
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... Democracy . The other great name in the political world of those far - off times was Solon , the celebrated legislator of Athens , one of " the seven wise men of Greece . " He was called " Wise " because of his moral inquiries ...
... Democracy . The other great name in the political world of those far - off times was Solon , the celebrated legislator of Athens , one of " the seven wise men of Greece . " He was called " Wise " because of his moral inquiries ...
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... democracy , under nine magistrates , with a senate of four hundred members , and an assembly of the people who decided for peace or for war , and who chose the magistrates . The Spartan family was under the tyranny of the State ...
... democracy , under nine magistrates , with a senate of four hundred members , and an assembly of the people who decided for peace or for war , and who chose the magistrates . The Spartan family was under the tyranny of the State ...
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... democracy , which is defined as " a paste- coloured commonwealth , dealing with all alike on a footing of equality , whether they be really equal or not . " An extravagance of liberty leads , by a natural reaction , to the rule of the ...
... democracy , which is defined as " a paste- coloured commonwealth , dealing with all alike on a footing of equality , whether they be really equal or not . " An extravagance of liberty leads , by a natural reaction , to the rule of the ...
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... democracy as among the bad forms of government . Monarchy degenerates into tyranny , aristocracy into oligarchy , and a mixed government into democracy , with the peculiar jealousies which each is apt to create ; and , therefore , the ...
... democracy as among the bad forms of government . Monarchy degenerates into tyranny , aristocracy into oligarchy , and a mixed government into democracy , with the peculiar jealousies which each is apt to create ; and , therefore , the ...
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Page 72 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 72 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 59 - O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Page 72 - For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr stands, { On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
Page 59 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 45 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 45 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
Page 71 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Page 77 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Page 56 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.