 Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not...  A Defence of Classical Education - Side 64af Sir Richard Winn Livingstone - 1916 - 278 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern - 1911 - 478 sider
...themselves. As the Funeral Speech says : ' We call our constitution a democracy because its working is in the hands not of the few but of the many,' or, to quote the paradox at the close of Herodotus's eulogy of democracy, ' in the many all things... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1917 - 456 sider
...First of all, then, in Athens тróXíc and тгоХ/тт?ç stand nearest in meaning. " The state is in the hands not of the few, but of the many/' Lydia, Egypt, Persia, and the barbarian tribes of the North might have kings or chieftains — The... | |
 | 1920 - 370 sider
...of other peoples. It is true that our government is called a democracy, because its admi iUt ration is in the hands, not of the few, but of the many; yet while as regards the law all men are on an equality for the srttltment of th-ir private disputes,... | |
 | Graham Wallas - 1921 - 304 sider
...the principle of Liberty, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with each other. . . . Our constitution is named a democracy, because it...talent in every branch of achievement, not for any partisan reason but on grounds of excellence alone. . . . We have no black looks or angry words for... | |
 | Graham Wallas - 1921 - 316 sider
...the principle of Liberty, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with each other. . . . Our constitution is named a democracy, because it...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any partisan reason but on grounds of excellence... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 sider
...solemnity, and expedient too that the whole gathering of citizens and strangers should listen to them. . . . "Our constitution is named a democracy because it...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence... | |
 | Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 sider
...government is not copied from those of our neighbors; we are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. Our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1924 - 584 sider
...deftness; corrupting the fine sense of social obligation which alone made possible what Athenians "called democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many" — for the "many" were Athenians all. And it is their city, of which the fragments are precious to... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - 1924 - 474 sider
...government is not copied from those of our neighbours : x we are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy, because it...and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent hi every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And... | |
 | Wilbur Cortez Abbott - 1925 - 272 sider
...of other peoples. It is true that our government is called a democracy, because its administration is in the hands not of the few but of the many; yet while, as regards the law, all men are on an equality for the settlement of their private disputes,... | |
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