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This sentiment was tersely and well expressed in the French Declaration of Rights of 1795. "Equality consists in this, that the law is the same for all whether it protects or punishes." Of course, no assertion of rights can be carried to the extent of the dictum, "Fiat Justitia ruat Respublica," for if the state fall, all hopes of justice fall with it.

This rare and elegant little bird is found only on the mainland of New Guinea, and in the island of Mysol. A still more rare and beautiful species than the last is the Diphyllodes wilsoni, described by Mr. Cassin from a native skin in the rich museum of Philadelphia. The same bird was afterwards named "Diphyllodes respublica" by Prince Buonaparte, and still later, "Schlegelia calva," by Dr.

Groups of sailors might be seen collected on the docks and at the shipping, ready to embark on a voyage of plunder; merchants and traders, in detached bodies, might be seen discussing the hazards of commerce; the schools liberated from their prescribed hours of study, because of some fresh report of L'Embuscade or of Genet; the schoolmaster uttering in his dismissal a new reason for the study of the classics, by expounding with oracular dignity to his scholars, Vivat Respublica, broadly printed as the caption of the playbill or the pamphlet just issued."

I am apt to think you would suffer the pledge to be forfeited. If you could give me sufficient security, indeed" At this moment the Antiquary and Captain M'Intyre entered the apartment. "Good morning to you, gentlemen," said the magistrate; "you find me toiling in my usual vocation looking after the iniquities of the people labouring for the respublica, Mr.

I am apt to think you would suffer the pledge to be forfeited. If you could give me sufficient security, indeed" At this moment the Antiquary and Captain M'Intyre entered the apartment. "Good morning to you, gentlemen," said the magistrate; "you find me toiling in my usual vocation looking after the iniquities of the people labouring for the respublica, Mr.

Not that Pliny had any cause for self-reproach! He tells us in a charming letter his rule of conduct with his dependants, and the theory on which he conducted his household. According to his view, "Servis respublica quaedam et quasi civitas domus est."

It was nowise probable, if Augustus had not made excellent laws, that the bowels of Rome could have come to be so miserably eaten out by the tyranny of Tiberius and his successors. The best rule as to your laws in general is that they be few. Rome, by the testimony of Cicero, Was best governed under those of the twelve tables; and by that of Tacitus, Plurimoe leges, corruptissima respublica.

At the foot of the playbills were always the words, 'Vivat Respublica. Washington often visited this theater, being particularly gratified by Wignell's performance of Darby, in the 'Poor Soldier. "It was in the theater in John street that the now national air of 'Hail Columbia, then called the 'President's March, was first played.

The Council of State met the Dutch envoys with the proposal una gens, una respublica, which nothing but sheer conquest and dire necessity would ever induce the Dutch people to accept. Accordingly the war went on, though the envoys did not leave London, hoping still that some better terms might be offered.

The State is territorial, not personal, and is constituted by public, not by private wealth, and is always respublica or commonwealth, in distinction from despotism or monarchy in its oriental sense, which is founded on private wealth, or which assumes that the authority to govern, or sovereignty, is the private estate of the sovereign.