James Bryce
James Bryce
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.
constitution continue existence law practical remain seen substance words
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same
broad creating effort experts industry involving leaders provide standards value
Creating industry standards that provide real-world value is a collaborative effort involving experts and leaders from a broad cross-section of specialties,
brought clear committee components delighted few functions help improved methods nature open past provides system understanding work
Our community's understanding of the nature of transactional functions in a service-oriented system has improved considerably over the past few years, ... This new committee provides a very clear set of components for those functions. We are delighted to see the work brought into open standardization, which will help make its usefulness and connections to other methods obvious.
thinking rights liberty
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.
book life-is-too-short inferiors
Life is too short to read inferior books.
book rooms enough
If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.
book waste poor
When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.
history historical use
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
country san-francisco california
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
mean men thinking
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
book life-is-too-short reading
Life is too short for reading inferior books.
cities america
Perhaps the most typically American place in America.