Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1866 - 418 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
absolute morality action Acts of Parliament assert Bank Bank of England bankers become belief bills body capital carried cause cent citizens classes companies conclusion consciousness consequence consider constitution contract conviction Corn-Laws daily demand diminished directors effect efficient Empiricism engineers entail equitable established evils existence experience extension fact fulfil further gained give greater habitually Hence Herbert Spencer House of Commons idea imply increased interests issue labour law of effect legislation less lines manufacturers means members of Parliament ment mental mercantile mind mode nature needful Obermair obtained officers organization Parliament political present principle prisoners produced profits proposition proved question railway reason regulations representative government respect restraint riences scarcely sentence shareholders shares Sir William Hamilton social society supposed things thought tion trade true truth undertakings warrant words
Pasajes populares
Página 21 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 33 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain: loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle.
Página 11 - Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced. In either case, whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.
Página 26 - At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather, we came, with no small difficulty, to our journey's end.
Página 24 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold: Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
Página 36 - Richter says, in the Island of Sumatra there is a kind of ' Light-chafers,' large Fire-flies, which people stick upon spits, and illuminate the ways with at night. Persons of condition can thus travel with a pleasant radiance, which they much admire. Great honour to the Fireflies! But—!
Página 20 - The Border slogan rent the sky: A Home! a Gordon! was the cry; Loud were the clanging blows; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose: As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds and sail, It wavered mid the foes.
Página 12 - Let us then inquire whether economy of the recipient's attention is not the secret of effect, alike in the right choice and collocation of words, in the best arrangement of clauses in a sentence, in the proper order of its principal and subordinate propositions, in the judicious use of simile, metaphor, and other figures of speech, and even in the rhythmical sequence of syllables.
Página 12 - The greater forcibleness of Saxon English, or rather non-Latin English, first claims our attention. The several special reasons assignable for this may all be reduced to the general reason — economy. The most important of them is early association. A child's vocabulary is almost wholly Saxon. He says, <(I have...
Página 46 - To have a specific style is to be poor in speech. If we remember that in the far past, men had only nouns and verbs to convey their ideas with, and that from then to now the growth has been towards a greater number of implements of thought, and consequently towards a greater complexity and variety in their combinations; we may infer that we are now, in our use of sentences, much what the primitive man was in his use of words; and that a continuance of the process that has hitherto gone on, must produce...