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...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the... ...s-books, and then to use examination and inspector, grant in aid, training college, lecture, book and pamphlet to spread the sound ex- * Peccavi. 91 ... ...eover, and of the children of a growing element in the life of the eastern United States, the home functions are delegated in a very large de- gree to... ...dental development, is got in school or in its subsequent develop- ment of college, and with that I will put aside the question of intellectual develo... ...etic, the four obligatory subjects for the very lowest grade of the London College of Preceptors’ examinations, for example. The ex- amination papers ... ... of candidates, is the unforeseen and unavoidable mechanical defect of all electoral methods with large electorates. Educa- tion has nothing to do wit... ...ut that this method is so universally recognized as superior to the common electoral method that any one who should propose to-day to take the fate of... ... privi- leges in public matters—for instance, it might qualify for certain electoral juries. And from this class the next rank might easily be drawn i...

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............................................................. 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-...

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...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...

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........................................................................ 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 ...

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...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 ...

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...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the ... ...roy the machinery of the party system that sustains him, and to adopt some electoral method that will no longer put the independent representative man... ...ates appointed by the two great party organisations in the State. It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote split- ting or any indica... ...great people should be baffled by the mere mechanical degen- eration of an electoral method too crudely conceived. There exist alternatives, and to th... ...re us, and not simply newspapers and periodicals and books, but pulpit and college and school have to bear their part in it. And in that particular I ... ...ire will acquit itself. How absurd is the preoccupation of our schools and colleges with the little provincialisms of our past history before A.D. 180... ...y and soon, if our country is to accomplish its destinies. Our schools and colleges exist for no other purpose than to give our youths a vision of the...

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...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ... ...xpressed a willingness to be chosen. This would so far give reality to the electoral rights of the otherwise virtually disfranchised minority. But it ... ...cures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the electoral body: not two great parties alone, with perhaps a few large secti... ...ctory in which any person or class is pe remptorily excluded—in which the electoral privilege is not open to all persons of full age who desire to ob... ...wn people by public business as of the schooling of youth in academies and colleges. A government which attempts to do every thing is aptly compared b...

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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... ...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... ...h as no nation in Europe has yet ven- tured to attempt. In Connecticut the electoral body consisted, from its ori- gin, of the whole number of citizen... ...t universally elected, and the citizens were not all of them electors. The electoral franchise was everywhere placed within certain limits, and made d... ...d. There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; f... ...Statutes, vol. i. p. 455. The Regents of the University annually visit the colleges and acad- emies, and make their report to the legislature. Their s... ...ture. Their super- intendence is not inefficient, for several reasons: the colleges in order to become corporations stand in need of a charter, which ... ...en by Mr. Story (p. 508, or in the large edition Section 1388): “Dartmouth College in New Hampshire had been founded by a charter granted to certain i...