 Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order...  The Quarterly Review - Page 41edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or CH. XLV.] CONCLUDING CHAPTER. 719 corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1834 - 174 pages
...and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless,...public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the... | |
 | 1845 - 778 pages
...impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire toiuch a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by...corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, the people."* Appealing from the present inhabitants of Massachusetts to their ancestors of the Revolution, lot is... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 pages
...and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless,...public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Judges - 1851 - 696 pages
...and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless,...an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence Q£ its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the [virtue, public spirit, and intelligence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1853 - 576 pages
...its arrangements are full of wisdom and order, and its defences are impregnable from without. It lias been reared for immortality, if the work of men may...public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, neverthless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or...public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...its defences are impregnable trout without. It has be(n reared for immortality, if the work of ainn may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless...by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its ojuv keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the... | |
 | James Spence - Secession - 1861 - 398 pages
...triumph of a leader, and the discontents of a day, have outweighed all solid principles of government. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless,...public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest, and the profligate... | |
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