The maritime towns of Flanders, France, and England, like the free republics of Italy, prosecuted their own quarrels by arms, without asking the leave of their respective sovereigns.
These three Italian republics enjoyed immunities in the Christian principalities of Syria; possessing separate quarters in Acre, Tripoli, and other cities, where they were governed by their own laws and magistrates.
Italy, except in Naples, and perhaps Piedmont, displayed little of its spirit; which neither suited the free republics of the twelfth and thirteenth, nor the jealous tyrannies of the following centuries.
From the struggles of her spirited republics against the emperors and their internal factions, we might, upon all general reasoning, anticipate the early use and vigorous cultivation of their native language.
This cheering incitement, the genial sunshine of approbation, has at all times promoted the cultivation of literature in small republics rather than large empires, and in cities compared with the country.
The seat of Government of our associated republics can not but be regarded as worthy of your parental care.
We are now negotiating with representatives of the twenty Latin American Republics for the creation of an inter-American financial institution.
The coffers of the Church and the republics lay open to their not too scrupulous hands; the wealth of Milan and Naples was squandered on them in retaining-fees and salaries for active service.
Spanish-America has twelve republicsand eight thousand miles of coast line on the Pacific ocean.
If Central-American republics are only constitutional monarchies in which the monarch governs the constitution, there is very good reason for the anomaly.
And while South America has long had the form of democracy, it now becomes essential that herrepublics develop the working reality of effective self-government.
The combined foreign trade of the west-coast republics before the war reached the very respectable total of nearly one billion of gold dollars in a single year.
Chief among these is the Central America Mission which maintains workers in all the republics of Central America who confine themselves largely to evangelistic effort.
The presidents of some of these republics exercise more arbitrary power than the king of England or the entire executive of the United States.
All of the Central republics have constitutional religious liberty, and the work of Protestantism is officially welcome everywhere.
The thinking minds of these southern republics are almost without a religion to-day.
But in the semi-independent Dutch republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (especially the former) no such equality of rights existed.
The Este vied with the other princes and republics in building churches and convents, of which Ferrara still possesses a large number.
It was not three years after the last Spanish troops had been driven from South America that war broke out between the Republics of Bolivia and Peru.
How far from the truth is this estimate can only be judged by one who enjoys a personal acquaintance with Republics such as Argentina and Chile.
This area is now occupied by the Republics of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
The powerful personality of Santa Cruz soon enabled him to become the virtual Protector of Peru, in addition to President of Bolivia, and he now began to organize the fusion of the two Republics into a single State.
For the rest, little was achieved, while farther south development was proceeding along the lines which have brought into being the great republics of to-day.
Thus the difficulty with which the more advanced Republics are confronted is no longer one connected with rapid and disorderly changes of Government and Presidents.
Of this group of lesser Republics, however, Venezuela may well enough be taken among the last, since that State still remains one of the rapidly declining number of Republics whose affairs continue in a really backward condition.
The sole centres where the phase of revolution has lingered on with an intermittent flourishing are those of the Northern Republics referred to in this chapter and the inland State of the centre of the Continent, Paraguay.
Thus the inhabitants of Lima were enabled to learn of the establishment of the Republics in Colombia, Buenos Aires, and Chile.
Officially, the four Republics of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia were leagued together into an alliance to resist this aggression on the part of Spain.
Muscovy, so that, in fine, only therepublics of Novgorod and Pskov and the principalities of Tver and Vereya remained independent of Moscow.
From 1659 onwards, these African cities, though nominally forming parts of the Turkish empire, were in fact anarchical military republics which chose their own rulers and lived by plunder.
Meanwhile, the political agitations of despotisms and republics alike, and the diplomatic relations of so many petty States, have stimulated observation and developed the powers of analysis.
In antiquity there were republics and democracies, but there was no Representative System.
The rise and success of the alliance of Italian republics known as the Lombard League no doubt contributed to the success of the papacy, but in their contest with the popes the emperors never had any chance of gaining a permanent victory.
The situation in tropical America today, with a few exceptions, seems to be that the republics have the form of liberty without its substance, and the shadow of civilization without its realities.
The result is that they are Republics only in name, and that the only way to change administrations is to have a revolution.
As it is, in a majority of the Republics south of the Rio Grande there is a state of affairs which makes against the development of resources and the best interests of the people.
With the Central American Republics it is the same.
Had it not been for the Monroe doctrine it is safe to say that not one of the Republics of tropical America would be in existence today.
On the whole, however, the relations entered into between the two Republics in 1904 have been such as to leave no serious ground for complaint.
Though not without amenity and grace, they wanted that boldness, sublimity, and poetic enthusiasm by which the bards of the Greek republics were inspired.
In the freer states of antiquity, as the republics of Greece and Rome, letters found various outlets, by which their improving influence was imparted, more or less extensively, to the bulk of the citizens.
Monarchies and aristocracies tend toward democracy, and republics tend to become more and more democratic in their forms and methods.
What would seem the natural course in an agreement between two republics would have been a formal treaty between them.
He said: “Gouverneur Morris once said to me that we made our mistake when we began, when we united eight republics with five oligarchies.
That the subsequent history of the Central American republics has been largely a record of civil war, maladministration and financial dishonesty, is perhaps due in part to racial inferiority.
The sketch of the two Dutch Republics in his Report is drawn with a very friendly hand.
If it had not been for this untoward incident, the Dutch Republics would have been more favourable to Lord Carnarvon's policy than Cape Colony was.
In the Italian republics of the 16th century the lottery principle was applied to encourage the sale of merchandise.
Whereas the economies of most of the former Soviet republics had begun to bottom out in 1995, Azerbaijan's economy continued to plummet because of its late start on economic reform.
Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the ex-Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects.
I saw that, even when those republics fell a victim to some tyrant or podesta, their men still preserved rights and uttered thoughts which left them more free and more great than the Commons of England after all their boasted wars.
Therefore, the believers of God throughout all the republics of America, through the divine power, must become the cause of the promotion of heavenly teachings and the establishment of the oneness of humanity.
The Republics of Venice and Genoa owned many commercial ports and islands in the AEgean Sea and Adriatic, and were madly jealous of one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "republics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
