And what we have to think of is, how does this story of the flood reveal, unveil to us the living Lord of the world, and his living government thereof?

It is, I fear, far from being impossible that, in consequence of these proceedings of Texas, a crisis may be brought on which shall summon the two Houses of Congress, and still more emphatically the executive government, to an immediate readiness for the performance of their respective duties.

They can, if they will, save Lord Vernon, and incidentally the government, a lot of trouble.

In France, under nominally republican government, all the fruits of victorious revolutions are nipt by the blasting grip of centralized power,legislative and administrative omnipotence.

An augur like Lucius Paullus, who saw in the priesthood a science and not a mere title, was already a rare exception, and could not but be so, when the government more and more openly and unhesitatingly employed the auspices for the accomplishment of its political designs, or, in other words, treated the national religion in accordance with the view of Polybius as a superstition useful for imposing on the public at large.

In the constitution now put in force in South Africa the central point of importance is that it established what is practically a unitary and not a federal government.

The author is not in the least inclined to admit the charge, but thinks, rather, that the Government in questionindividually and collectivelywas astonishingly ignorant of European conditions and problems, especially those prevailing in the Germanic Empires.

A strong hope was entertained that peace would ere this have been concluded between Spain and the independent governments south of the United States in this hemisphere.

He proceeds to say that the commissioner had reported to him in an official form that the military officers employed in the service of the United States stationed at Santa Fe interposed adversely with the inhabitants to the fulfillment of his object in favor of the establishment of a separate State government east of the Rio Grande, and within the rightful limits of the State of Texas.

They are employed, in short, in the publick work; because, as the crimes they have committed are considered to have been crimes against the publick, no individual can justly receive the emoluments of their labour; and they are neither sold, nor made capable of being transferred, because no government whatsoever is invested with such a power.

This is a free government, and a fatherly government, and a mild government, as ye all know; but it is not a government that likes reading and writing; reading that leads to the perusal of bad books, and writing that causes false signatures.