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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...- perimental in our plan of government was the question whether democratic rule could be so organized and conducted that it would not degenerate into ... ... dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of bl... ...es which were destined one day to become the United States of America. The centre of power still remains here; whilst in the backwoods the true elemen... ...coverable in the physi- ognomy of those adventurers who came to seek a new home on the opposite shores of the Atlantic. Another remark, to which we sh... ...ease their wealth; the call which summoned them from the comforts of their homes was purely intellectual; and in facing the inevitable sufferings of e... ...he sovereignty of the people, which had been nurtured in the townships and municipalities, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in i... ...ovinces were separately administered; they abounded in powerful and active municipalities; and although the whole government of the empire was centred...

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... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...ty? Man indeed, and King Louis like other men, lives in this world to make rule out of the ruleless; by his living energy, he shall force the absurd i... ...is bellying sails; had not the wind suddenly shifted. Flamborough reapers, homegoing, pause on the hill-side: for what sulphur-cloud is that that defa... ...gens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as at home with the mean? Poor Paul! hunger and dispiritment track thy sinking fo... ...e: Memoires, ii. 100, &c.) Great is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it; though self-elected, yet sanct... ... any spe- cial recompense, any peculiar place at the solemnity;— since the Centre Grenadiers rather grumble. Harangue of ‘Tennis-Court Club,’ who ente... ...ing chosen by Citizens of a too ‘active’ class, are found to pull one way; Municipalities, Town Magistracies, to pull the other way. In all places too... ...e-minis- ter, for the time being, ghost whom we do not name, does write to Municipalities and King’s Commanders, that they shall, by all conceivable m...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State ... ... moves seldom and softly,—who looks always as though he had just been sent home in a bandbox. Ferdinand Lopez was not a little man, and moved freely e... ...ment,—going into the city or coming out of it, on horseback or on foot, at home over his book or after the mazes of the dance,—was he dressed oth- erw... ...Stone Buildings on to the gar- dens belonging to the Inn, —and her, in the centre of the metropolis, but in perfect quiet as far as the outside world ... ...and that the Duchess was asking her husband what place among the political rulers of the country had been offered to him by the last aspirant to the l... ...nd that his duty to his country required him to be in very truth its chief ruler. And then with some knowledge of things as they are, —and also with m... ...hand was one by which Phineas Finn hoped so to increase the power of Irish municipalities as to make the Home Rulers believe that a certain amount of ... ...arton Hall, and cherished with the warmest kisses, and would have been the centre of all the hopes of the Whartons. But the Wharton lawyer by use of r...

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...n very much into the society of the nicer English. Paris, you see, was our home. Some- where between Nice and Bordighera provided yearly winter quar- ... ...poor thing. 4 The Good Soldier When we all first met, Captain Ashburnham, home on sick leave from an India to which he was never to return, was thirt... ...he real thing that she seemed too good to be true. You don’t, I mean, as a rule, get it all so superlatively together. To be the county family, to loo... ... blindfolded to the hot rooms, to the douche rooms, to the fountain in the centre of the quadrangle where the rusty water gushes out. Yes, I could fin... ...with three golden cranes flying upward on each panel; the palm-tree in the centre of the room; the swish of the waiter’s feet; the cold expensive eleg... ...er girls mar- ried Marquises and governesses Earls. And in his books, as a rule, the course of true love ran as smooth as buttered honey. And he was f... ... in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities. A rough bit of road beneath the motor tyres, a couple of su...

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....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw, the Pen... ...ery strongly the need of being protected against Vigi- lance Societies and Municipalities and common in- formers in a country where a large section of... ...ussion of particular plays, much as if a commit- tee on temperance were to rule that drunkenness was not a proper subject of conversation among gentle... ...tional argument against it, heavy as that was, unless it were also brought home to the Committee and to the public that it had sanctioned and protecte... ...y cer- tified as fitting for presentation on the stage. When the Committee ruled out this part of the case it shook the confidence of the authors in i... ...ity eyes, dancing with mischief. There was nothing more to be said. I went home to my morning’s work, and returned in the afternoon to receive the apo... ... the public. It was this practical impossibility that prevented the London County Council from attempting to apply a censorship of the Lord Chamberlai... ...if they caught him with two hours start. ELDER DANIELS [coming back to the centre of the group] The strange thing is that he wasn’t on the horse when ...