They are the three riddles of the sphinx of fate, to which the human commonweal must find an answer or perish.
They were limited men, fallible men; Washington was, for example, a conspicuously indolent man; but on the whole they seem to have cared more for the commonweal they were creating than for any personal end or personal vanity.
They did nothing to develop the consciousness of a world commonweal overriding sovereigns and foreign offices.
Once his strong hand lay still, England fell away from this premature attempt to realize a righteouscommonweal of free men.
It was a complete recognition of the unalienable sovereignty of states, and a repudiation of the idea of an over-riding commonweal of mankind.
Come, bring them away; if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law; bring them away.
The King and commonweal Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains; My Lord Protector will, I doubt it not, See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.
O, if to fight for king andcommonweal Were piety in thine, it is in these.
Through this language the vernacular citizen escapes from his parochial and national limitations to a wide commonweal of thought.
One of the most remarkable appeals made directly to the law-making powers by the unemployed was that of Coxey's "Commonweal Army.
Now, what thou hast said of thy services to the commonweal is true, only too little compared with the greatness of thy deservings.
And now, as to the immensity of this project of substituting loyalty to a world commonweal for loyalty to a single egotistical belligerent nation.
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains.
The task before mankind is to substitute the one common idea of an overriding world commonweal for the multitudinous ideas of little commonweals that prevail everywhere to-day.
The linking reality of the World State is much more likely to be not an individual but an idea--such an idea as that of a human commonweal under the God of all mankind.
They are resisting adjustments; their minds are fighting against the sacrifices of pride and authority that a full recognition of their subordination to the world commonweal will involve.
We shall be lucky if the resistance of the administrative side of existing states to the conception of a world commonweal is merely passive.
Commissioners also shall go forth on all sides; the People be exhorted; the Armies be increased; care taken that the Commonweal suffer no damage.
In my account of the situation under Somerset I have followed the documents printed by Strype, and the appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonweal of this Realm of England.
Preface to The Commonweal of this Realm of England (ed.
Commonweal of this Realm of England (Lamond), Appendix to Introduction, lviii.
Miss Lamond's edition of The Commonweal of this Realm of England).
Appendix to Miss Lamond's edition of The Commonweal of this Realm of England, Hale's defence, p.
Hales' defence (appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonwealof this Realm of England).
The defence of John Hales agenst certyn sclaundres and false reaportes made of hym" (Appendix to Miss Lamond's introduction to The Commonweal of this Realm of England, p.
The Commonwealof this Realm of England (Lamond), p.
I answered, that every little member should serve to some use; but that the care of the commonweal appertained most to him, and the rest of the nobility, who should be as fathers to it.
Ample and full vent of this noble and rich commodity is it that the commonweal of this realm doth require.
The Commonweal of this Realm of England (edited by E.
And in his book of a Commonweal he entitles Fate "the speech of the virgin Lachesis, who is the daughter of Necessity.
It follows from this very directly that only one thing can end war on the earth and that is a subtle mental development, an idea, the development of the idea of the world commonweal in the collective mind.
None that hate The commonweal whose empire sets men free Find comfort there, where once by grace of fate A soul was born as boundless as the sea.
One divine day saw her foemen scattered on the sea Far and fast as storm could speed: the same strong day of days Sees the imperial commonweal set friends and foemen free.
And if the common people, as they are wont, make any disturbance, let the princes bridle and quail them, which princes ought to be the selfsame thing in the commonweal that the eye is in the body, and the reason in the soul.
Of him we have learned, that no commonweal may flourish, in which all things are common.
Ye say ye make war for the safeguard of the commonweal, yea, but noway sooner nor more unthriftily may the commonweal perish than by war.
They are her 'favourites'; because they are men who deserve favour; men who count not their own lives dear to themselves for the sake of the queen and of that commonweal which their hearts and reasons tell them is one with her.
And wherefore are magistrates ordained, but that the tranquillity of the commonweal may be confirmed, limiting both ploughs?
Bonaparte represents an economic class, and that the most numerous in the commonweal of France--the Allotment Farmer.
Accordingly, the political influence of the allotment farmer finds its ultimate expression in an Executive power that subjugates the commonweal to its own autocratic will.
In the summer of 1894 the river achieved notoriety in connection with the epidemic of "Commonweal Armies" that disturbed the public that year.
