If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free • nations cannot govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in... Annual Register - Side 332redigert av - 1880Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=vzQ5AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 sider
...29th, 1895.] "IF there is one lesson," says Mr. Froude, "which history plainly teaches, it is this ; that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere ineompetence for its duties." This was precisely the case at Rome. The career of conquest on which... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=N8AUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1900 - 628 sider
...the Roman Republic, when he says: "If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this: That free nations cannot govern subject provinces....own Constitution ,the Constitution itself will fall to pieces, through mere incompetence for its duties." And Imperial Rome began when Republican Rome... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=6TskAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | James Anthony Froude - 1899 - 502 sider
...end. " If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations can not govern subject provinces. If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=VkDq09iiDgwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1900 - 324 sider
...unwilling to extend her privileges. ... If there is one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Some of our party are acting as if they were inquisitors of the dead Republic before whom the corpse... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=dTgNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Horace White - 1900 - 68 sider
...be one lesson which history clearly teaches," says Mr. Froude in his sketch of Caesar, " it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." These words are not more appropriate to our present circumstances than those which Thucydides puts... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=0BY4irdMxXAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | The Brotherhood of Liberty, Newport, Rhode Island - 1900 - 352 sider
...unwilling to extend her privileges. ... If there is one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Some of our party are acting as if they were inquisitors of the dead Republic before whom the corpse... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=-egAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1901 - 830 sider
...unwilling to extend her privileges. ... If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." Whether Froude, writing in 1879, was right or wrong in his interpretation of Roman history is not here... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=uOUhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Moorfield Storey - 1901 - 56 sider
...remember the words of Froude : " If there be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces through, mere incompetence for its duties." It is this lesson which Lincoln taught more briefly : "... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=rb2GhXdOOegC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | James Duval Phelan - 1901 - 92 sider
...govern subject provinces. If they are unwilling or unable to admit their dependencies to a share of their own constitution, the constitution itself will...in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties." England was not willing to treat its colonies with equal justice. Why ? For the very same reason that... | |
![](https://books.google.no/books/content?id=G9j7Tbd_VysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Moorfield Storey - 1903 - 72 sider
...The historian Froude said:— '' If thefe be one lesson which history clearly teaches, it is this, that free nations cannot govern subject provinces....constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces through mere incompetence for its duties/ 1 Or, as-Lincoln more briefly taught,— ''Those who deny... | |
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