common-weal

They have a qualification standing in their lobbies; they carry a sufficient stake in the common-weal below their arm.

Lay Morals 2005

Though parish schools, in the later sense, were not yet devised, detailed arrangements were made that the readers at the several kirks should impart religious knowledge and the elements of primary education to the young of the flock, and that those who showed an aptitude for learning and capability of being trained to be of service to kirk or common-weal should have access at various centres to higher training.

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

He likes not this connection of the common-weal and divinity, and fears it may be an arch-practice of state.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a common-weal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law: bring them away.

Act II. Scene I. Measure for Measure 1914

Our interest is in the _degree_ to which news can be suppressed or garbled, particular discussion of interest to the common-weal suppressed, spontaneous opinion boycotted, and artificial opinion produced.

The Free Press Hilaire Belloc 1911

They have a qualification standing in their lobbies; they carry a sufficient stake in the common-weal below their arm.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Only once, at a moment of the wild popular excitement which at that period was easy to provoke in Holland, there was a certain [100] group of persons who would have shut him up as no well-wisher to, and perhaps a plotter against, the common-weal.

Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866

"Thus," write the commissioners, "the common-weal is given up to artisans and laborers whose views are limited to their own existence."

The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

[And let us to the Capitol also, and hear the civic claim of the oaken garland, the military claim to dispose of the _common-weal_, as set forth by one who is himself a general 'commander-in-chief' of Rome's armies, and see whether or no the Poet's own doubtful cheer on the battle-field has any echo in this place.] _Com.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

There is no help for it, for she has made with her traditions a thing that no common-weal can bear.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835