Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is an entirely wrong conception; the moral idea must be sovereign in every sphere. One profession especially in which the ethical impulse is noticeably lacking is that of journalism. It is said that the tone is low because that is what the people want; but this excuse would justify any crime, from the Crucifixion to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The voice of the people is the voice of God only when it accords with the conscience of a good man, and those who preach divorce between business and righteousness are not friends of the republic...
...Missionaries involve their governments in foreign wars.- (a) They incite natives to rebellion.- (b) They urge their governments to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign nations.- (c) They seek the support of their own governments when they get into difficulty for interfering in the affairs of state: Missions-New Style, Nation...
...interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point of war or only so far as to prevent an implied surrender of it; does it involve the corrolary now asserted by our government, that "today the United States is practically sovereign on the continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confirms its interposition;" does it involve the position, also asserted, "that distance and 3000 miles of intervening ocean make
...Coreans have received slight consideration from either Japan or China. Japan has invaded Corea repeatedly, and China has fought many battles upon her soil. For three hundred years Coreans have paid tribute to China and Japan, acknowledging the Chinese as the sovereign power. In 1875 a Corean fort fired upon a Japanese man-of-war and in reparation the government made a treaty of commerce with Japan. She stated in the treaty that Corea was a free and independent nation. Treaties with other nations followed...
...master-spirits of all the centuries. When one reads Boswell, he cannot help thinking what a privilege it would have been to belong to Johnson's set, but only consider of what a Club every scholar may be admitted a member. "Study," said Montesquieu, "has been for me a sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, and I have never had a vexation that an hour's reading has not dissipated." But a man could not say that, who should choose Paul de Kock for his bosom friend rather than Milton, or prefer Miss Braddon's society to that...