James Bryce
James Bryce
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.
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
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.
book life-is-too-short inferiors
Life is too short to read inferior 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.
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.
government water unity
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.
men careers political
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
mistake gentleman president
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.
government giving democracy
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.