The Civil Polity of the United States Considered in Its Theory and PracticeCushing, Thomas & Company, 1883 - 284 pages |
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Page 101 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 257 - ... inheritance which we have enjoyed. We welcome you to the blessings of good government and religious liberty. We welcome you to the treasures of science and the delights of learning. We welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic life, to the happiness of kindred, and parents, and children. We welcome you to the immeasurable blessings of rational existence, the immortal hope of Christianity, and the light of everlasting truth!
Page 125 - ... certainty, that, in obedience to an irresistible instinct, they always maintain dominion, wherever they are the stronger. And we neither enacted this law, nor were the first to carry it out when enacted ; but having received it when already in force, and being about to leave it after us to be ia force forever, we only avail ourselves of it ; knowing that both you and others, if raised to the same power, would do the same.
Page 39 - Tacitus goes so far as to consider it proved by experience that the gods are not concerned about the protection of the innocent, but only about the punishment of the guilty. 2 The power of conscience is manifested in numerous examples; as in what the same historian says of the anguish of Tiberius. 3 "We talk...
Page 208 - Intelligent observation of the course of events strongly suggests that there is " a Providence that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 279 - TJwu sayest it ; /' am a king ; /' was born and am come into the world to bear witness to the truth.
Page 230 - Romantic poets' confusion about religion and at the same time repudiated their exploitation of personality? They could, of course, take Voltaire's position, and say that if God did not exist it would be necessary to create him, and some of the arguments brought forward by Mr Eliot in his prose writing almost suggest that at times this is the line that he took. In his later poetry, however, from 'Ash Wednesday...
Page 97 - The law may vest the appointment of '' inferior officers" in the President, the courts of law, or the heads of departments, but it may also prescribe conditions.
Page 195 - That rule is indeed often, and especially regarding private or family affairs, a just one, like the maxim that "the truth is not to be spoken at all times.