"Commonweal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have met mainly, as their name may foreshadow, to look after Elections when an Election comes, and procure fit men; but likewise to consult generally that the Commonweal take no damage; one as yet sees not how. For indeed let two or three gather together any where, if it be not in Church, where all are bound to the passive state; no mortal can say accurately, themselves ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... other. He was a genius who would "bear no brother near the throne."—"I have been informed that there were jealous heart-burnings, if not bickerings, between him and Col. Ayres, another of our great reformers in the writing commonweal, both eminent men, yet, like our most celebrated poets Pope and Addison, or, to carry the comparison still higher, like Caesar and Pompey, one could bear no superior, and the other no equal." Indeed, the great Snell ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... He built his commonweal On equity's wide base: by tender laws A lively people curbing, yet undamped; Preserving still that quick, peculiar fire, Whence in the laurelled field of finer arts And of bold freedom they unequalled shone, The pride of smiling Greece, and ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson |
