A Century of RevolutionChapman and Hall, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... ancient Hellenic republics , examined and dissented from . Those republics were the first missionaries of freedom in the Western world The political progress of Europe is the gradual vindication of the personal , social , and public ...
... ancient Hellenic republics , examined and dissented from . Those republics were the first missionaries of freedom in the Western world The political progress of Europe is the gradual vindication of the personal , social , and public ...
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... Ancient and medieval democracies were the result of fierce struggles , and of the triumph of the most highly endowed races ; they rested upon a basis of fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ...
... Ancient and medieval democracies were the result of fierce struggles , and of the triumph of the most highly endowed races ; they rested upon a basis of fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ...
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... ancient democracies excluded ; the full recognition of their status as persons ; and their direct influence upon public affairs . The advent of the masses , of the numerical majority , to immediate political authority is the social fact ...
... ancient democracies excluded ; the full recognition of their status as persons ; and their direct influence upon public affairs . The advent of the masses , of the numerical majority , to immediate political authority is the social fact ...
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... ancient Hellas - I mean Aristotle . It is worth while to do so , both because his incomparable treatise , based as it is upon a profound knowledge of human nature , is " not of an age , but for all time , " and because of the direct and ...
... ancient Hellas - I mean Aristotle . It is worth while to do so , both because his incomparable treatise , based as it is upon a profound knowledge of human nature , is " not of an age , but for all time , " and because of the direct and ...
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... ancients " ( " les anciens n'ont pas connu la liberté individuelle " ) that " there was nothing in the whole man , as he existed in the Greek republics , which was independent . " With the greatest respect for this learned and ...
... ancients " ( " les anciens n'ont pas connu la liberté individuelle " ) that " there was nothing in the whole man , as he existed in the Greek republics , which was independent . " With the greatest respect for this learned and ...
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Seite 42 - When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.
Seite 201 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Seite 106 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Seite 107 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Seite 179 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 234 - BAYARD' : ° HISTORY OF THE GOOD CHEVALIER, SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE. Compiled by the LOYAL SERVITEUR; translated into English from the French of Loredan Larchey. With over aoo...
Seite 124 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
Seite 195 - ... a social support, a point d'appui, for individual resistance to the tendencies of the ruling power ; a protection, a rallying point, for opinions and interests which the ascendant public opinion views with disfavour.
Seite 21 - WORSAAE (JJA)— INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF DENMARK, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.
Seite 70 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.