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 »
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 »
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 »
The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprise...s us not of his wealth, but of the commonwealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that so...ul from distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisone...d.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »