The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesCharles Gilpin, 1850 - 439 páginas |
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... persons demur to the term as too mechani- cal , let them remember that the whole universe is a mechanism , is a building - one thing is so set against another , that we dare not look at it in its organic structure and character alone ...
... persons demur to the term as too mechani- cal , let them remember that the whole universe is a mechanism , is a building - one thing is so set against another , that we dare not look at it in its organic structure and character alone ...
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... persons most dazzled by pomps will ever be the lowest and meanest of the human family ; so those kingdoms dazzled by the merely sensuous exterior in society , will ever be at the lowest ebb of civilization too ; society when it puts on ...
... persons most dazzled by pomps will ever be the lowest and meanest of the human family ; so those kingdoms dazzled by the merely sensuous exterior in society , will ever be at the lowest ebb of civilization too ; society when it puts on ...
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... persons acquainted with country towns know those annual gatherings of hinds , and serving - men and maid servants , in the streets , on the occasions provincially called mopps or statiz - properly STATUTES , from the assembly being in ...
... persons acquainted with country towns know those annual gatherings of hinds , and serving - men and maid servants , in the streets , on the occasions provincially called mopps or statiz - properly STATUTES , from the assembly being in ...
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... persons of rank . " A maid of honour , perhaps , breakfasted on roast beef ; but the ploughman I fear , in those good old times , as they are called , could only banquet on the strength of water gruel . " an undefined and unexpressed ...
... persons of rank . " A maid of honour , perhaps , breakfasted on roast beef ; but the ploughman I fear , in those good old times , as they are called , could only banquet on the strength of water gruel . " an undefined and unexpressed ...
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... persons use that species of grain now . Wheaten bread was only known as a luxury at Christmas time ; it is now used all the year round by almost all persons . On the most moderate computation it may be affirmed , that the consumption of ...
... persons use that species of grain now . Wheaten bread was only known as a luxury at Christmas time ; it is now used all the year round by almost all persons . On the most moderate computation it may be affirmed , that the consumption of ...
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Página 407 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 405 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 408 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 237 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Página 273 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 250 - At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Página 172 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Página 117 - Meanwhile . at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests,— spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Página 198 - Labour's fair child, that languishes with wealth ? Go, then ! and see them rising with the sun, Through a long course of daily toil to run ; See them beneath the dog-star's raging heat, When the knees tremble and the temples beat ; Behold them, leaning on their scythes, look o'er The labour past, and toils to come explore ; See them alternate suns and showers engage, And hoard up aches and anguish for their age...
Página 52 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...