 It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 12edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege but as a reward of merit. Xeither is poverty a bar, but a man may benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his position. "We are unrestrained in private intercourse, while a spirit of reverence pervades our public... | |
 | 1926 - 626 pages
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 | Education - 1934 - 708 pages
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 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 742 pages
...any way distinguished, he is preferred ness, our • Reading Il8 FUNERAL SPEECH OF PERICLES. . II. to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as 8.0.451 private the reward of merit. e Neither is poverty a bar. but a ''87'J from sus- . J picion... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognised ; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he...whatever be the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our intercourse we are not suspicious of one another, nor... | |
 | William Pittenger - Oratory - 1883 - 290 pages
...equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized ; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he...whatever be the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private intercourse we are not suspicious of one another,... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1883 - 732 pages
...match for tbo Peloponnesians united ; though we have no secrets and undergo no laborious training. to the public service, not as a matter of privilege,...whatever be the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private intercourse we are not suspicious of one another,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 344 pages
...secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he...whatever be the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private intercourse we are not suspicious of one another,... | |
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