"Commonweal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to his duty to the Lord God, who would demand reckoning from him hereafter for the well-being of the provinces; as all experience proved that change of religion ever brought desolation and confusion to the commonweal; as low persons, beggars and vagabonds, under color of religion, were accustomed to traverse the land for the purpose of plunder and disturbance; as his Majesty was most desirous of following in the footsteps of his lord and father; as it would be well remembered what the Emperor had said to ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... epics before they are sung, Driving her rails from the palms to the snow, Through States that are greater than Emperors know, Forty-eight States that are empires in might, But ruled by the will of one people tonight, Nerved as one body, with net-works of steel, Merging their strength in the one Commonweal, Brooking no poverty, mocking at Mars, Building their cities to talk with the stars. Thriving, increasing by myriads again Till even in numbers old Europe may wane. How shall a son of the England they fought Fail to declare the full pride of his thought, ...
— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes
... blind Samson in our land, Shorn of his strength and bound with bonds of steel, Who may in some grim revel raise his hand, And shake the pillars of the Commonweal."] ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers |
