In proper English households . . . one writer remembered in the 1630s as a time when, "The child perfectly loathed the sight of hi...s parents, as the slave his Torturer. Gentlemen of 30 or 40 years old, fitt for any employment in the commonwealth, were to stand like great mutes and fools bare headed before their parents; and the Daughters (grown women) were to stand at the Cupboards side during the whole time of the proud mothers visit, unless (as the fashion was) 'twas desired that leave (forsooth) should be given to them to kneele upon cushions brought them by the servingman, after they had done sufficient Penance standing."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to b...e taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fa...shions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a t...housand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a tho...usand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spir...it of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see two dingy little rooms with "FOR LADIES" swinging over one and "FOR COLORED PEOPLE" over the other; while wondering under wh...ich head I come, I notice a little way off the only hotel proprietor of the place whittling a pine stick as he sits with one leg thrown across an empty goods box; and as my eye falls on a sample room next door which seems to be driving the only wide-awake and popular business of the commonwealth, I cannot help ejaculating under my breath, "What a field for the missionary woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom ...have I enriched to other's harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and th...at the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »