SELECTED LITERARY AND POLITICAL PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF WOODROW WILSON1921 |
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... influence of inventions and discoveries in altering the distribution of power among the various classes of society ; a bold and masterly sketch of the peculiar sort of advantages which Europe derived from the discovery of America and of ...
... influence of inventions and discoveries in altering the distribution of power among the various classes of society ; a bold and masterly sketch of the peculiar sort of advantages which Europe derived from the discovery of America and of ...
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... given to the works of Adam Smith an immortality of influence . In his first university chair , the chair of Logic , he had given scant time to the investigation of the formal laws of reasoning , and had insisted , by 19 AN OLD MASTER.
... given to the works of Adam Smith an immortality of influence . In his first university chair , the chair of Logic , he had given scant time to the investigation of the formal laws of reasoning , and had insisted , by 19 AN OLD MASTER.
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... influence of artistic concep- tion and combination gives to his style its lumin- ous and yet transparent qualities . His sen- tences cannot retain the stiff joints of logic ; it would be death to them to wear the chains of formal ...
... influence of artistic concep- tion and combination gives to his style its lumin- ous and yet transparent qualities . His sen- tences cannot retain the stiff joints of logic ; it would be death to them to wear the chains of formal ...
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... influences brought particular laws into exist- ence ; how much of each law actually lives in the regulation of public function or private activity , how much of it has degenerated into ' dead letter ; ' in brief , just what things it is ...
... influences brought particular laws into exist- ence ; how much of each law actually lives in the regulation of public function or private activity , how much of it has degenerated into ' dead letter ; ' in brief , just what things it is ...
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... influence of de Tocqueville and Bagehot ? Both these inimitable writers were men of extraor- dinary genius , and , whatever they might have written about , their writings would have been admiringly preserved , if only for the wonder of ...
... influence of de Tocqueville and Bagehot ? Both these inimitable writers were men of extraor- dinary genius , and , whatever they might have written about , their writings would have been admiringly preserved , if only for the wonder of ...
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Strana 83 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name...
Strana 100 - Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd...
Strana 19 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Strana 10 - In the last part of his lectures, he examined those political regulations which are founded, not upon the principle of justice, but that of expediency, and which are calculated to increase the riches, the power, and the prosperity of a State.
Strana 18 - The principal materials of the works which he had announced, had been long collected ; and little probably was wanting, but a few years of health and retirement, to bestow on them that systematical arrangement in which he delighted ; and the ornaments of that flowing, and apparently artless style, which he had studiously cultivated, but which, after all his experience in composition, he adjusted, with extreme difficulty, to his own taste...
Strana 82 - Europe.' as Sydney Smith said, ' he safely brought the curates' salaries improvement bill to a hearing'; and it still more shows the horror of all innovation which the recent events of French history had impressed on our wealthy and comfortable classes. They were afraid of catching revolution, as old women of catching cold. Sir Archibald Alison to this day holds that revolution is an infectious disease, beginning no one knows how, and going on no one knows where. There is but one rule of escape,...
Strana 81 - Hardly any fact in history is so incredible as that forty and a few years ago England was ruled by Mr. Perceval: it seems almost the same as being ruled by the Record newspaper, — he had the same poorness of thought, the same petty Conservatism, the same dark and narrow superstition. His quibbling mode of oratory seems to have been scarcely agreeable to his friends; his impotence in political speculation moves the wrath, destroys the patience of the quietest reader now. Other ministers have had...
Strana 91 - We manifested one hundred years ago what Europe lost, namely, self-command, self-possession. Democracy in Europe, outside of closeted Switzerland, has acted always in rebellion, as a destructive force: it can scarcely be said to have had, even yet, any period of organic development. It has built such temporary governments as it has had opportunity to erect on the old foundations and out of the discredited materials of centralized rule, elevating the people's representatives for a season to the throne,...
Strana 93 - When practised, not by small communities, but by wide nations, democracy, far from being a crude form of government, is possible only amongst peoples of the highest and steadiest political habit. It is the heritage of races purged alike of hasty barbaric passions and of patient servility to rulers, and schooled in temperate common counsel. It is an institution of political noonday, not of the half-light of political dawn. It can never be made to sit easily or safely on first generations, but strengthens...
Strana 11 - And he destroyed before his death the remains of the book, Lectures on Justice, "in which," we are told by a student who heard them, "he followed Montesquieu in...