Word: citizens
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...Democratic ideas should control when political issues are on tendencies and theories of government; the Republican, when there are times of foreign danger and necessity for practical and strong legislation. In thus summing up the composition and policies of the two parties, he says in his closing paragraph, "A citizen . . . will support the strong government party when he must, the free government party when he dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare...
...Thorp has been a prominent citizen of Cambridge since his graduation from Harvard in 1879. He has made a specialty of amateur photography and in connection with this work has made a careful study of the upper Charles, near Riverside and Norumbega Park...
...Liberty is not in itself a good; it is only a means for obtaining good. In its noblest, simplest terms liberty is self-sacrifice. This self-sacrifice begins with the first step in civilization and is the end of the savage's self-assertion. The earliest use that a citizen of a liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor man knows he has less liberty than the rich man; till a man is independent he is not free. The man who is in want...
...programme of Mr. Copeland's reading, to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening, will be mainly chosen from "Queen Anne's Men." It will include an extract from "The Rape of the Lock," and one from Pope's "Iliad"; Addison's "The Citizen's Journal," and "The Vision of Mirza"; Swift's account of the Struldbrugs, from "Gulliver's Travels"; Gay's fable, "The Hare and Many Friends"; and, a letter of Lady Mary...
...contention of the city government appears to be this: The College shares, with every other citizen of the municipality, in the police and fire protection furnished; in the sewer, street lighting, and clean street improvements; but contributes nothing to their support. The necessity of including the College property in the expense of maintaining these municipal works, they urge calls for an outlay that materially increases the tax rate of the city...