Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall of the Commonwealth", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...English Commonwealth", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...English Commonwealth", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
...House of Representatives. He could have become Speaker this year had he chosen, and Governor Fuller once asked him to run for Attorney-General. He did not choose. Detached of mien, not outwardly the politician, he appeared to feel that his post was at the purse-strings of his commonwealth and there he stayed, vigorously, vigilantly economical. That was why Harvard was so eager to have him as treasurer. The answer to why he would leave the Legislature for the university is summed up more simply: he is a Harvard...
...Mary St. I. c. I.) contains in the preamble the following recital that "the state of every King consists more assuredly in the love of the subjects toward their prince than in the dread of laws made with vigorous pains: and that laws made for the preservation of the commonwealth without great penalties, are more often obeyed and kept than laws made with extreme punishment...