The Swiss RepublicJ.B. Lippincott, 1891 - 487 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 427
... ever flow ; She draws her favors to the lowest ebb ; Her tides have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web . " This same Alpenglühen casts its kaleidoscopic rays directly at the BERN . 427.
... ever flow ; She draws her favors to the lowest ebb ; Her tides have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web . " This same Alpenglühen casts its kaleidoscopic rays directly at the BERN . 427.
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الصفحة 334 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
الصفحة 117 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
الصفحة 381 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies...
الصفحة 117 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
الصفحة 161 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
الصفحة 118 - Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both, and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people, declared in the Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws rather than by those which are not fundamental.
الصفحة 33 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
الصفحة 190 - But it is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. Were not this great country already divided into States, that division must be made, that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority...
الصفحة 75 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you; to any man, or to any set of men living.
الصفحة 339 - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way, And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze...