Word: sovereign
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...which he embodied in a revelation. By symbols he tells what the vision means to him. He sees first in the Lord strength and round about that strength beauty. Man has not always seen God as John saw him. There was a time when some men saw but the sovereign quality in him, and they were either defiant or distrustful; others saw but the beauty and mercy, there was a cross for no one, a caress for everyone. But we must see both the cross and the throne if we would have a true conception of God. The text also...
...Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each sovereign in the language of the other. Thus was shown that two nations had arisen. The German of the one was clear and distinct from the French of the other. This fact comes to us through the Eatin chronicler, who unconsciously has given a record of the separation of a people...
Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...every kind of society, those disgusts and vexations which will happen in the intercourse of life, you will be frightened to take upon you the serious charge of the father of a family; but if you think of the comforts of a home, where you are a sort of sovereign, the kind endearment of an amiable woman, who has no wish but to make you happy, then marriage is truly the condition in which true felicity is to be found." This is orthodox enough, but Boswell goes on to add frankly, "I think we may strike a good medium." Just...
...verdict of his state is sufficient for us who are not "more holy" than our fellows. When twelve men pronounce a man guiltless of crime, we accept their judgment as correct. What then shall we say of vindication such as Maine has given Blaine, when the people of a sovereign state, regardless of party, creed or condition, rose up and showed their love, their trust, their faith, by 20,000 majority ! Let us in these resolutions give evidence of our respect for the only man who in the history of the Republic held no public office at the time...