Republics

Examples

• The republics of Genoa and Pisa were very powerful in the Middle Ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Greeks and Latins lapsed very easily again into republics, and so did the Aryans in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The venerable Mother of the Republics is scarce a fit subject for flippant speech or the idle gossipping of tourists. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Better the republics of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes, than such playing at monarchy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But in the ancient republics of Greece and Italy, every citizen was a soldier, and both served, and prepared himself for service, at his own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thousands of comparatively pacific little village republics and chieftainships were spread over the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• BOOK V THE RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE XXVII THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS[224] § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Small republics have sometimes derived a considerable revenue from the profit of mercantile projects. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They consisted, indeed, of a very different order of people from the first inhabitants of the ancient republics of Greece and Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Grouped about France, these republics were to be a constellation of freedom leading the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They never achieved any unity in India; their history is a history of warring kings and republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But most of the Greek city states had become aristocratic republics long before the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the most part these European towns were independent or quasi-independent aristocratic republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The four daughter republics of France were now to become kingdoms; in 1806 he set up brother Louis in Holland and brother Joseph in Naples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Everywhere kings were expelled and republics set up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both the American and the French republics fell into serious trouble upon this score. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Italian republics, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, are all in debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Scarce can we believe the first citizens of the ancient republics had such pretensions to consideration, though so highly celebrated in ancient story. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All the varieties in the fortune of those two famous republics may very well be accounted for from the same cause. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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