Sublime

You need stocks to create flows, and you need flows to replenish stocks.

I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country, in the failure of its example on the earth.”

On ne conçoit pas, à l’époque où Henrique se met au travail, combien les notions géographiques et nautiques de l’Europe sont rudimentaires. Pendant les sombres siècles d’ignorance et d’abrutissement qui suivirent la chute de l’empire romain, le moyen âge a oublié tout ce que les Phéniciens, les Grecs, les Romains savaient en cosmologie.

But to what mental state have people come if they cannot see that Europe has been, upon the whole, the home of democracy, and Asia, upon the whole, the home of despotism?

But though the story of the Stuarts was a tragedy, I think it was also an epilogue. I make the guess, for it can be no more, that the change really came with the fall of Richard II, following on his failure to use mediaeval despotism in the interests of mediaeval democracy. England, like the other nations of Christendom, had been created not so

One hundred and one miles long and two hundred feet wide at its narrowest point, the canal was owned by the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, a private stock company. Of the company’s 32 directors, 16 were French, 9 British, 5 Egyptian, 1 Dutch, and 1 American. The British government held 44 percent of the stock, another 44 percent