...on the North-East, has dashed forth on Spires and its Arsenal; and then on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no shadow ... ...e, have pre- cisely this problem to solve. Under the name and nickname of ‘statesmen, hommes d’etat,’ of ‘moderate-men, moderantins, ’ of Brissotins, ... ...e rises, and swells; caps raised on bayonets, hats waving: students of the College of Four Nations take it up, on the far Quais; fling it over Paris. ... ... 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... ...leans sitting quiet in Bourges, to whom we could run? Nay even the Primary electoral Assemblies, thinks Guadet, might be reconvoked, and a New Convent... ...x eclats,’ at the gentilities and superfine airs of these Girondin “men of statesmanship,” with their pedantries, plausibilities, pusillanimities: “th... ...ansculottism makes, as it were, free arena; one of the strangest temporary states Humanity was ever seen in. A nation of men, full of wants and void o... ...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 ...

...th and strength of a man. Nature had as yet no name to him; he had not yet united under a name the infinite variety of sights, sounds, shapes and mo- ... ...h, though afar off, to new genuine ones. All this of Liberty and Equality, Electoral suffrages, Inde- pendence and so forth, we will take, therefore, ... ...e, before he became conspicuous. He was the son of poor parents; had got a college education; become a Priest; adopted the Reformation, and seemed wel... ...ey laugh so, have an affectionate, lovable kind of character. He is like a College-Tutor, whose whole world is forms, College- rules; whose notion is ... ...ddenly, with that unalterable luckless notion of his, at the head not of a College but of a Nation, to regulate the most complex deep-reaching interes... ...it not, in its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man? For a Knox to take it up was something; but for a Cromwel... ...hypocrites,” seems to me a rather sorry business. We have had but one such States- man in England; one man, that I can get sight of, who ever had in t... ...hopeless problem, “Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action;”— how cumbrous a problem, you may see in Chancery Law- Court... ...d of Reform Bill,—Parliament to be chosen by the whole of England; equable electoral divi- sion into districts; free suffrage, and the rest of it! A v...

............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...ength, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You demand States-Gen- eral?” asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.— ”Ye... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...urer of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, commonly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;—and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense ... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ... thriftily educated; he had brisk Camille Desmoulins for schoolmate in the College of Louis le Grand, at Paris. But he begged our famed Necklace-Cardi... ... their Cahier is long since finished, see good to meet again daily, as an ‘Electoral Club’? They meet first ‘in a Tavern;’—where ‘the largest wedding-...

...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...er of the Rue St. Antoine;’ he, com- monly so punctual, is absent from the Electoral Committee;— and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense... ... that shall be ‘tolerably known in the Revolution.’ He is President of the electoral Cordeliers District at Paris, or about to be it; and shall open h... ... thriftily educated; he had brisk Camille Desmoulins for schoolmate in the College of Louis le Grand, at Paris. But he begged our famed Necklace- Card... ... Doubtless, the ‘powers must be verified;’— doubtless, the Commission, the electoral Documents of your Deputy must be inspected by his brother Deputie... ...ts; nay with leaden badges, for the Municipal- ity licenses them. A Sacred College, properly of World-rulers’ Heralds, though not respected as such, i... ... thou art better than nothing, and also worse! Young Boarding-school Boys, College Students, shout Vive la Nation, and regret that they have yet ‘only... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

...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 ... ...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... ...ch this present war was begotten, we must sit up to this novel proposal of electoral representation in the peace negotiations. Something more than com... ...he people nor appointed by any legislative body. He is chosen by a special college elected by the people. This col- lege exists to elect him; it meets... ... of Nations? I am anxious here only to start for discussion the idea of an electoral representation of the nations upon these three bod- ies that must... ...t advocacy of meth- ods of election or the like. In the United States this college which elects the President is elected on the same register of voter... ...otiations, it will be more decisive of the will of the whole nation if the college that had to appoint them is elected at a special elec- tion. I supp... ...uld be at least one Indian representative elected, perhaps by some special electoral con- ference of Indian princes and leading men. The chief defect ...

...K I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE......................................................... ...I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped ... ... and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the Fren... ...st, and would get what he called an exhibition from his school, and then a college scholarship and fellowship, and then a good living—it tasked young ... ...araguay—who knows where? I am now Captain von Holtz, in the service of his Electoral Highness, come to negotiate ex- change of prisoners with his High... ...ompliment his conquerors after the action. In this battle, where the young Electoral Prince of Hanover behaved himself very gallantly, fighting on our... ...amily, were yet forced to confess that, on the day of Oudenarde, the young Electoral Prince, then making his first campaign, conducted himself with th... ...h!) Henry Esmond hath been Marquis of Esmond and Earl of Castlewood in the United Kingdom, and Baron and Viscount Castlewood of Shandon in Ireland, an... ...d lonely under its ruined old roof? We were all so, even when together and united, as it seemed, following our separate schemes, each as we sat round ...

........................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II ...

...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...y exertions against the ambition of Austria, or the States themselves have united so closely against the common enemy. The power of Austria never stoo... ...ies of Germany. Four Protestant against three Roman Catholic voices in the Electoral College must at once have given the prepon- derance to the former... ...many. Four Protestant against three Roman Catholic voices in the Electoral College must at once have given the prepon- derance to the former, and for ... ...ion was fixed, Ferdinand summoned to it as lawful king of Bohemia, and his electoral vote, after a fruitless resistance on the part of the Bohemian Es... ...fered you? I would rather eat bread at thy kingly table, than feast at thy electoral board.” Frederick accepted the Bohemian crown. The coronation was... ...e, opposed three Protestant to three Ecclesiastical votes in the Electoral College; while to the Elector of Bohemia, as to the Archduke of Austria, th... ...n Catholic religion would obtain a decisive preponderance in the Electoral College, and secure a permanent triumph in Germany. The last circumstance w...

...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...d as my father, and having been, I rather think, a younger schoolfellow or college companion of his, had on returning from India re newed their youth... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...nted Professor of Jurisprudence in the London Uni versity (now University College), he had lived for some time at Bonn to study for his Lectures; and... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w... ...has found favour with nobody; all who desire any sort of inequality in the electoral vote, desiring it in favour of property and not of intelligence o... ...urther extension of slavery, but whose fidelity to the Constitution of the United States made them disapprove of any attempt by the Federal Government... ...ical shape. I was convinced that no numerous or influential portion of any electoral body, really wished to be represented by a person of my opinions;... ...d be done by unpaid agency or by voluntary subscription. If members of the electoral body , or others, are willing to subscribe money of their own for...