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...ment of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries ...

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...cognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment....

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..., that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions... ..., it is one of those which least progress has been made in resolving. No two ages, and scarcely any two countries, have decided it alike; and the deci... ...ith in this collective authority at all shaken by his being aware that other ages, coun tries, sects, churches, classes, and parties have thought, an... .... Yet it is as evident in itself as any amount of argument can make it, that ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many ... ... intolerance in the feel ings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country , it needs but little to provoke them into... ...mean ing of doctrines and of their evidence. The school disputations of the Middle Ages had a somewhat similar object. They were intended to make sur... ...d themselves with cutting off the additions which had been made to it in the Middle Ages, each sect supplying the place by fresh additions, adapted to... ...der mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition from... ...ic: in America, they are the whole white population; in England, chiefly the middle class. But they are always a mass, that is to say , collective med...

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...nk. In an cient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentice... ...an cient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices, serf... ...ctly facing each other: Bourgeoi sie and Proletariat. From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the char tered burghers of the earliest towns. From t... ...cing each other: Bourgeoi sie and Proletariat. From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the char tered burghers of the earliest towns. From these bu... ... its place. The guild masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds ... ...facture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial middle class, by industrial millionaires, the leaders of whole industrial... ...s capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages. We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is it self t... ...al, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages. We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is it self the produ... ...isclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which Reactionists so much admire, found its fitting comple ment i...

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...cial facts of the greatest importance, have subsequently, in the course of ages, ceased to exist. But the state of the case is in every respect the re... ... of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultiva tion, before any thinker w... ... quented the parts of the world occupied by the living representatives of ages long past, are able to form any mental picture of what society then wa... ...ture of what society then was. People are not aware how entirely, informer ages, the law of superior strength was the rule of life; how publicly and o... ... no such notion could find a place in the faculties of any person in those ages, ex cept a philosopher or a saint. History gives a cruel experience o... ...the braver and man lier. The smallest acquaintance with human life in the middle ages, shows how supremely natural the domin ion of the feudal nobil... ...me so. In most European countries it was not till towards the close of the middle ages, and as a conse quence of the growth of regal power, that comm... ...om, but, what the love of freedom generally was in the ancients and in the middle ages— an intense feeling of the dignity and importance of his own pe...

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...ore extreme, not to say higher grounds of principle, than they began with. Middle parties and friends of compromise are soon left behind; and if the w... ...an admirable letter by Mr. Carey), the Slave States are intersected in the middle, from their northern frontier almost to the Gulf of Mexico, by a cou... ...in a virtuous cause, and the sense of an inestimable benefit to all future ages, brought about by their own voluntary efforts. To return to the Elect...

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...epicts as eminently hateful. I have a hundred times heard him say that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly inc... ...s in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations. The middle age architecture, the baro nial hall, and the spacious and lofty ro... ...f this fine old place, so unlike the mean and cramped externals of English middle class life, gave the sentiment of a larger and freer ex istence, an... ...site. In England it is only of the best bred people, in the upper or upper middle ranks, that anything like this can be said. In my way through Paris,... ...of modern Europe have historically derived from the separation, during the Middle Ages, of temporal and spiritual power, and the dis tinct organizati... ...rn Europe have historically derived from the separation, during the Middle Ages, of temporal and spiritual power, and the dis tinct organization of t... ...mmon property. The leading thought of the book is one which though in many ages confined to insulated thinkers, mankind have probably at no time since... ...with what feelings I contem plated the rush of nearly the whole upper and middle classes of my own country even those who passed for Liberals, into a...

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... and so much abused as Pope. Some writers, des- tined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurels in their own time; while others, on who... ...ated him. It shall be our endeavour, in our succeeding remarks, to steer a middle course between the parties. Lord Carlisle commenced his able and elo... ... 30 The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name: In one short view subjected to our eye Gods,... ...iot’s honest face; There, warriors frowning in historic brass: Then future ages with delight shall see How Plato’s, Bacon’s, Newton’s looks agree; ... ..., or confine A common blessing: now ’tis yours, now mine. But poets in all ages had the care To keep this cap for such as will, to wear. Our author ha... ...made so, in complaisance to a few who are. Accordingly we find that in all ages, all vain pretenders, were they ever so poor or ever so dull, have bee... ...d rows his state, And left-legg’d Jacob 301 seems to emulate. Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Which Curll’s Corinna 302 chanced that morn...

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...of such an island should be but one nation, yet we find that they were for ages divided into three, and that those three were almost constantly em- br... ...se of human events, and to set at defiance the accu- mulated experience of ages. The causes of hostility among nations are innumerable. There are some... ...ople compose one branch of the national legislature. Commerce has been for ages the predominant pursuit of that country. Few nations, nevertheless, ha... ...within the kingdom. If we are wise enough to preserve the Union we may for ages enjoy an advantage similar to that of an insulated situa- tion. Europe... ...upendous fabrics reared on the basis of liberty, which have flourished for ages, have, in a few glorious instances, refuted their gloomy sophisms. And... ...e largest were entitled to three votes in the common council, those of the middle class to two, and the smallest to one. The common council had the ap... ... of naval strength or of national economy. Some of the Southern and of the Middle States yield a greater plenty of iron, and of better quality. Seamen... ...ree confederacies—one consisting of the four Northern, another of the four Middle, and a third of the five Southern States. There is little probabil- ...

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... kind, though far less in degree, is pro duced on Englishmen of the lower middle class by their li ability to be placed on juries and to serve paris... ...work of some one period has been so done as to bar the needful work of the ages follow ing. Meanwhile, it may be laid down as a political truth, that... ...ir political clas 107 J S Mill sification. The notion that Yorkshire and Middlesex have rights apart from those of their inhabitants, or that Liverp... ... from this position may partly be measured by what an average woman of the middle class knows and cares about politics compared with her hus band or ... ...rities that the teaching is real, and not a mere pretense. The “local” or “middle class” examination for the degree of associate, so laudably and publ... ...erson must be blind to all the signs of the times who could think that the middle classes are as subservient to the higher, or the work ing classes a...

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...ly attained an equal degree of civilization. Lombardy and Flanders, in the middle ages, produced some descriptions of clothing and ornament 31 John S... ...ined an equal degree of civilization. Lombardy and Flanders, in the middle ages, produced some descriptions of clothing and ornament 31 John Stuart M... ...rought within the pale of exact science. If bankers were merely a class of middlemen between the lender and the borrower; if they merely received depo... ... idle, to invest them on their own account without the intervention of any middleman;) the deposits with bankers consist chiefly of small sums likely ... ...ask himself what are the prob- abilities that in the longest revolution of ages two nations will be found, which agree, and can be shown to agree, in ...