Citizenship and the SchoolThe University Press, 1923 - 180 páginas |
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Página 49 - ... you must yourselves realize the power of Athens, and feed your eyes upon her from day to day, till love of her fills your hearts; and then when all her greatness shall break upon you...
Página 49 - Further, we provide plenty of means for the mind to refresh itself from business. We celebrate games and sacrifices all the year round, and the elegance of our private establishments forms a daily source of pleasure and helps to banish the spleen ; while the magnitude of our city draws the produce of the world into our harbour, so that to the Athenian the fruits of other countries are as familiar a luxury as those of his own.
Página 47 - ... on the part of any of its members that is contrary to the established customs and that might compromise the interests of the society as a whole. Solon was once asked which was the best policed city*. "The city" he replied "where all the citizens, whether they have suffered injury or not, equally pursue and punish injustice.
Página 113 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Página 62 - The study 4 of law consists of two branches, law public, and law private. The former relates to the welfare of the Roman State ; the latter to the advantage of the individual citizen. Of private law then we may say that it is of threefold origin, being collected from the precepts of nature, from those of the law of nations, or from those of the civil law of Rome.
Página 176 - Adapted to the syllabus of the British Association Committee on Training in Citizenship.
Página 113 - But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 2 - No more vital truth was ever uttered than that freedom and free institutions cannot long be maintained by any people who do not understand the nature of their own government.
Página 104 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Página 24 - ... ourselves against the other dangers which I mentioned, the novel may be made available for something much higher than the pastime of inactive minds and jaded energies. The experience of literature may not be as valuable as the experience of life, but it serves its turn. There was a time when the saying that one half of the world did not know how the other half lived, was much truer than it is at present, and the lessening of the truth is in no small part a consequence of the novels of the day....