Unto which Mr. Catesby answering that all this seemed to be plain in common reason, and the same also practised by all well-governed commonwealths that ever have been, were they never so pious or devout.
Enough to observe, that the centralisation which united these twenty-two commonwealths under the papal sway, is still, after two centuries, their standing grievance.
As 'the Church' succeeded in digging her charter out of the ruins of the commonwealths of the ancient world, so the spirits of Vaticanism hope again to rebuild the palace of their dominion out of ruins.
He argues that it is in the interest of the Vatican policies to foment trouble and breed revolutions in the commonwealths of the world.
Pittsburgh has as many people as the whole state of Pennsylvania had at the opening of the last century; Allegheny county as many as at that time the commonwealths of Massachusetts and New York combined.
Here, then, is a community worthy of as serious statesmanship as that which has served wholecommonwealths at critical periods in our national advance.
The foundations of other American commonwealths had been laid in faith and hope, but the ruling motive of the founding of Georgia was charity, and that is the greatest of these three.
From commonwealths and cities, I will descend to families, which have as many corsives and molestations, as frequent discontents as the rest.
All civil Commonwealthsallow it: Cneius Manlius (as [3488]Livius relates) anno ab urb.
No man of his prominence in national affairs had ever travelled through the wild new commonwealths on the Mississippi.
The Mississippi ran so as to facilitate the movement of any expedition against New Orleans, while it offered formidable obstacles to counter-expeditions from New Orleans against the American commonwealths lying farther up stream.
In those new commonwealths in which a civilised population has at its command a boundless extent of the richest soil, the condition of the labourer is probably happier than in any society which has lasted for many centuries.
The commonwealths of Italy did not, like those of Greece, swarm with thousands of these household enemies.
When the princes and commonwealths of Italy began to use hired troops, their wisest course would have been to form separate military establishments.
In some districts they took shelter under the protection of the powerful commonwealths which they were unable to oppose, and gradually sank into the mass of burghers.
The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots, into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down, and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Plataea.
The moral and geographical position of those commonwealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East.
He goes back to the commonwealths of Greece, and attempts to press into his service a line of Homer and a sentence of Plutarch, which, we fear, will hardly serve his turn.
The Crusades, from which the inhabitants of other countries gained nothing but relics and wounds, brought to the rising commonwealths of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene seas a large increase of wealth, dominion, and knowledge.
God hath appointed governors to do justice in commonwealths and families, and to those you may repair, and not take upon you to revenge yourselves.
It will be a great injury, and grief, and danger to christian kings and states, to have their kingdoms and commonwealths thus weakened, and the cordial love and assistance of their subjects made so loose and so uncertain.
And how many kingdoms and other commonwealths have been thus overthrown, and betrayed into the enemy's hands!
Remember that in all this we speak not of the government of this or that particular kingdom, but of kingdoms and other commonwealths indefinitely.
But I would rather hear that talk, though on the affairs of a hamlet, than babble again with recreant nobles and blundering professors about commonwealths and constitutions.
But in the melting-pot of the American commonwealths the elements of many diverse nationalities are being mixed anew, and a new nationality distinctively American is likely to be the final outcome of the process.
Our Union now is one that is composed of commonwealths bound together by all that means common interest, the common weal and common protection of all the people.
We rejoice that Thou hast gathered us into families, and so into communities, commonwealths and the perfect union of all the states.
But this appeareth more manifestly when kings themselves, or persons of authority under them, or other governors in commonwealths and popular estates, are endued with learning.
The universities of these commonwealths are State universities.
The commonwealths of the old Confederation demonstrated the necessity for a clearer definition of their relations to each other and of the association of the American people in nationality.
In all the commonwealths the candidate for office must possess the religious qualifications required of electors.
The understanding of American affairs was more common, but intimate political association between the commonwealths was still unknown.
This condition was possible only in dwarf commonwealths like the city-states of the Hellenic world.
The northern boundaries of Indiana and Illinois were fixed by Congress for the express purpose of giving these commonwealths access to Lake Michigan.
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