Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...future as its charter causes it to be ruled at present, namely by a single man, the president, acting through a body of office holders of his own appointment, and a cabinet-not experts either-of his own suggestion. By a curious anomaly, the office-holders are the Parliament...
...most striking instance known to history of great industrial activity arising from natural advantages, and the intelligence and skill of the population. No tariff protected the colonies, yet there was a great diversity of industries, and these industries were remarkably productive, as is proved by the repressive measures of Parliament in the case of many colonial industries which began to compete with the flourishing industries of England. These obnoxious restrictions were among the causes of the Revolution. It was the mechanical genius and enterprise of the colonists and their geographical situation which caused this prosperity. A tariff, however, tends...
...Cornell Sun has deemed the articles written for the CRIMSON on the "Jury System at Bowdoin" and the "Johns Hopkins Mock Parliament," worthy of publication...
...poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule the Parliament of Man; but never casts a vote at a civil election. What is politics to him? The play of infants...
...wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor or Naseby, which is finally won for the Parliament and Calvinism by a dashing charge of the celestial Ironsides led by Christinstead of Cromwell. But the character of Satan is truly grand. Like all great literary creations, he is really the embodiment of the ideals, the aspirations, and the passions, of the time and country in which he was created...