Does the advantage consist in the substitution of representatives whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices and schemes of injustice?
If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote.
I am as heartily sorry as any of my readers can possibly be, that such an occasion was given: but this prince happened to be so curious and inquisitive upon every particular, that it could not consist either with gratitude or good manners, to refuse giving him what satisfaction I was able.
No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty.
It seems to me to be derivative, and to consist largely in BELIEFS: beliefs that what constitutes the thought is connected with various other elements which together make up the object.
There are two different kinds of realism, according as we make a thought consist of act and object, or of object alone.
When a family is complete, it
consists of freemen and slaves; but as in every subject we should begin with examining into the smallest parts of which it
consists, and as the first and smallest parts of a family are the master and slave, the husband and wife, the father and child, let us first inquire into these three, what each of them may be, and what they ought to be; that is to say, the herile, the nuptial, and the paternal.
A Sentence or Phrase is a composite significant sound, some at least of whose parts are in themselves significant; for not every such group of words
consists of verbs and nouns--'the definition of man,' for example - -but it may dispense even with the verb.
The first party consisted of Pfuel and his adherents- military theorists who believed in a science of war with immutable laws- laws of oblique movements, outflankings, and so forth.
The fifth party consisted of those who were adherents of Barclay de Tolly, not so much as a man but as minister of war and commander in chief.
But the whole, to continue the same metaphor,
consists in the cookery of the author; for, as Mr Pope tells us--
They paid no further attention to me and I was thus permitted to remain close and watch their operations, which
consisted in breaking an opening in the wall of the incubator large enough to permit of the exit of the young Martians.