Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 honours talent in every branch of achievement, not... "
Our Social Heritage - Page 156
by Graham Wallas - 1921 - 307 pages
Full view - About this book

The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-century Athens

Alfred Zimmern - 1911 - 470 pages
...barbarian city called Rome to learn about us. Our '"frnstitntinp '-< named a democcaf)'', h'Tans" il_Jc in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence...
Full view - About this book

The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-century Athens

Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern - 1911 - 478 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

A Defence of Classical Education

Sir Richard Winn Livingstone - 1916 - 488 pages
...desert of scholasticism, but into fields of beauty and delight. They opened Thucydides and read : " Our constitution is named a democracy because it is...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence...
Full view - About this book

From Pericles to Philip

Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1917 - 456 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Classical Weekly, Volume 13

1920 - 370 pages
...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,...
Full view - About this book

The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...solemnity, and expedient too that the whole gathering of citizens and strangers should listen to them. . . . "Our constitution is named a democracy because it...talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public...
Full view - About this book

Greek Life and Thought: A Portrayal of Greek Civilization

Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Wonders of the Past: The Romance of Antiquity and Its Splendours ..., Volume 3

Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1924 - 584 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

THE PAGEANT OF GREECE

R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...government is not copied from those of our neighbours : 1 we are an example to them rather than they to us. Our constitution is named a democracy, because it...private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honours talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence...
Full view - About this book

The New Barbarians

Wilbur Cortez Abbott - 1925 - 272 pages
...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,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF