Selected Literary and Political Papers and Addresses of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 3Grosset & Dunlap, 1921 - United States |
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Page 53
... common to several distinct branches of study . No systematic discussion of any part of the science of politics can advance very far without it ; and it is even more indis- pensable to the student of legal systems than to the student of ...
... common to several distinct branches of study . No systematic discussion of any part of the science of politics can advance very far without it ; and it is even more indis- pensable to the student of legal systems than to the student of ...
Page 57
... common to all the German States , and so help to make Germany a national unit . To attempt thus to systematize law , where by natural development it was unsystematic , seemed to Savigny a deliberate effort to render it artificial . Law ...
... common to all the German States , and so help to make Germany a national unit . To attempt thus to systematize law , where by natural development it was unsystematic , seemed to Savigny a deliberate effort to render it artificial . Law ...
Page 88
... common to say , in explanation of our regret that the dawn and youth of democracy's day are past , that our principles are cooler now and more circumspect , with the coolness and circumspection of advanced years . It seems to some that ...
... common to say , in explanation of our regret that the dawn and youth of democracy's day are past , that our principles are cooler now and more circumspect , with the coolness and circumspection of advanced years . It seems to some that ...
Page 90
... common democratic forces of the age of steam and electricity , have created new problems of organization , which it behooves us to meet in the old spirit , but with new measures . I First , then , for the forces which are bringing in ...
... common democratic forces of the age of steam and electricity , have created new problems of organization , which it behooves us to meet in the old spirit , but with new measures . I First , then , for the forces which are bringing in ...
Page 91
... common mind . The serious forces of democracy will be found , upon analysis , to reside , not in the disturbing doc- trines of eloquent revolutionary writers , not in the turbulent discontent of the pauperized and oppressed , so much as ...
... common mind . The serious forces of democracy will be found , upon analysis , to reside , not in the disturbing doc- trines of eloquent revolutionary writers , not in the turbulent discontent of the pauperized and oppressed , so much as ...
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Page 88 - Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown. What temper at the prospect did not wake To happiness unthought of?
Page 107 - Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd...