The social state of this little people, is a kind of republic governed by a senate, which is composed of the chiefs of most of the villages.

And foole, thy state in that sense is the best; thou art claspt with simplicitie, (a great badge of honestie,) for the poore foole has pawnd her cloathes to redeeme thy unthriftines; be jealious no more unlesse thou weare thine eares still, for all shall be well, and you shall have your puppie againe.

My previous state of suspense was happiness compared with what I now felt, when I knew she was in the arms of another.

And this, in the nineteenth century, when men are telling us that the poetic and enthusiastic have become impossible, and that the only possible state of the world henceforward will be a universal good-humoured hive, of the Franklin-Benthamite religion . . .

With them the first state is an initiation into lasting satisfactions, which advance in degree, in proportion as the spiritual rational principle of the mind, and thence the natural sensual principle of the body, in each party, conjoin and unite themselves with the same principles in the other party; but such instances are rare.

The individual must sacrifice himself for the higher community of which he is a member; but the State is itself the highest conception in the wider community of man, and therefore the duty of self-annihilation does not enter into the case.

States are not usually philanthropic organisations, these two least of all.

Both seek one thing onlypersonal ascendency, and the State becomes the bone over which the vilest curs wrangle.

The State of New York is about the same size as the Kingdom of England.

If our present state were one continued succession of delights, or one uniform flow of calmness and tranquillity, we should never willingly think upon its end; death would then surely surprise us as "a thief in the night;" and our task of duty would remain unfinished, till "the night came when no man can work.

Ethelbert, the last of these princes, was treacherously murdered by Offa, King of Mercia, in the year 792, and his state was thenceforth united with that of Offa, as we shall relate presently.

Some one State at any moment may be the immediate offender; but the main and permanent offence is common to all States.

On the other hand, the resolutes stood for the assertion that just because things were really critical in Germany(in the state of affairs that followed the Emperor's conversion)it was now the time for England to advance; that any hesitation shown now would be taken as a sign of weakness, and that the Socialists' cause would be thereby enormously advanced.

The natural state of ovation in which the girls existed was in itself an injury to him.

From this point of view it is easy to see how dull and stupid are the philosophasters who in pompous phrases represent that the State is the supreme end and flower of human existence.

He knew that the state of his health was not a matter of deep concern to the inspector, but such is the vanity of human nature that he was pleased at the inquiry.

Each state was a little country of itself, making its own laws, and having its own selfish aims without much regard for its sister states.

The chief Italian states at this period were the kingdom of Naples, the Papal States, the duchy of Milan, and the republics of Venice, Florence, and Genoa.

The state is simply an extension of the family, "state", of course, meaning simply the class of the feudal lords (the "chün-tz[)u]").

But it must be added, in justice to her character, that the ill state of her health was not the only or principal reason that brought her to, and kept her fixed in her resolution, of attempting, and persevering in this mortifying diet.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Just as the individual is not a real person unless related to other persons, so the State is no real individuality unless related to other States.

There is a good paper of Aberdeen's to Sir R. Gordon, in which he considers the Turkish Empire as falling, and our interest as being to raise Greece, that that State may be the heir of the Ottoman Power.

The highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception, is that of rest after fatigue; yet, that state which labour heightens into delight, is of itself only ease, and is incapable of satisfying the mind without the superaddition of diversified amusements.

20 Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very frame.

The state of her health during the next three months was a source of constant and severe suffering, but could not quench her joy in the wonders of nature around her.