Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of the Notes of a TravellerLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 - 534 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة i - Observations on the Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849: Being the Second Series of Notes of a Traveller.
الصفحة 184 - This is realised in Germany by the functionary system. The functionaries are not there for the benefit of the people, but the people for the benefit of the functionaries. All this machinery of functionarism, with its numerous ranks and gradations in every district, filled with a staff of clerks and expectants in every department looking for employment, appointments, or promotions, was intended to be a new support of the throne in the new social state of the Continent; a third class, in...
الصفحة 522 - Townsend.— The Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges of the Last and of the Present Century. By WC TOWNSEND, Esq., MA , Q,C. 2 vols.
الصفحة 27 - Burke has told us, that he is a benefactor of mankind, and has accomplished a great improvement for society, who makes two ears of corn grow where only one grew before.
الصفحة 94 - His way of living, his way of thinking, his diet, dwelling, dress, his tastes, wants, and enjoyments, his ideas, his civilisation, are stereotyped. Co-operative industry, science, invention, judgment, applied to the ornamental or useful arts, commerce, manufactures, the tastes for and...
الصفحة 522 - Containing the most important Dates of General History, Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary, from the Creation of the World to the end of the Year 1S57.
الصفحة 239 - The Prussian army consists of regiments of the line, or standing troops. This is considered the formation-school of the military force or army of the whole population of the country. Every male, without exception, in the whole population is bound to serve three years, between his twentieth and his twenty-fifth years, as a private in the ranks of a regiment of the line. The only exceptions are cases of bodily infirmity, and the clergy, schoolmasters, only sons of...
الصفحة 184 - Every imaginable and real social interest," says Mr. Laing, " religion, education, law, police, every branch of public or private business, personal liberty to move from place to place, even from parish to parish within the same jurisdiction ; liberty to engage in any branch of trade or industry, on a small or large scale, all the objects, in short, in which body, mind, and capital can be employed in civilized society, were gradually laid hold of for the employment and support of functionaries, were...
الصفحة 184 - Voltaire says, somewhere, that, "the art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third". This is realized in Germany by the functionary system. The functionaries are not there for the benefit of the people, but the people for the benefit of the functionaries. All this machinery of...
الصفحة 240 - ... exercise. The Landsturm consists of all not in the the service, or discharged from it by the completion of their terms of service in the other divisions ; and it is mustered and organised as well as the other divisions of the Landwehr force. The principle of the system is, that every Prussian subject, without exception, shall pass through a military training of three years, in the ranks of a regiment of the line, and shall then be available during his whole life as a trained soldier, in one or...