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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...
April is the sovereign of the year. At any rate, its the raining' month...
...stated that the Porte has sent a circular to the powers, protesting against the dispatch of foreign men-of-war to Egypt as unjustifiable, and declaring, moreover, that, were such action necessary, it would devolve upon the Sultan as sovereign of Egypt...