If the source of power lies neither in the physical nor in the moral qualities of him who possesses it, it must evidently be looked for elsewhere- in the relation to the
people of the man who wields the power.
A table of excellencies hangeth over every
people. Lo!
"I don't need to ask," said Sergey Ivanovitch, "we have seen and are seeing hundreds and hundreds of
people who give up everything to sense a just cause, come from every part of Russia, and directly and clearly express their thought and aim.
Nabis,[*] Prince of the Spartans, sustained the attack of all Greece, and of a victorious Roman army, and against them he defended his country and his government; and for the overcoming of this peril it was only necessary for him to make himself secure against a few, but this would not have been sufficient had the
people been hostile.
This country and this
people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.
Take them away, the
people without hearts, who do not weep because my mother is dead by witchcraft!"
Invited and urged by the open-hearted and truly benevolent
people who had given them an asylum from the persecution of their own kindred to form their settlement within the territories then under their jurisdiction, the love of their country predominated over every influence save that of conscience alone, and they preferred the precarious chance of relaxation from the bigoted rigor of the English Government to the certain liberality and alluring offers of the Hollanders.
At the time I went to Alabama the coloured
people were taking considerable interest in politics, and they were very anxious that I should become one of them politically, in every respect.
Though this indeed is evident from what we have already said: there are also many different sorts of common
people, and also of those who are called gentlemen.
Take it all in all, they were less different from us than were we from the Tree
People. Certainly, all three kinds were related, and not so remotely related at that.
So now
people begged Macpherson to travel through the Highlands and gather together as much of the old poetry of the
people as he could.
On examining the first relation, it appears, on one hand, that the Constitution is to be founded on the assent and ratification of the
people of America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose; but, on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the
people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent States to which they respectively belong.
