The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesPartridge and Oakley, 1852 - 456 páginas |
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... field ; the decision of the Battle of Life is in some degree taken from man , and science is made the arbiter of his destiny . The achievements of science in this age are tran- scendent ; her pathway of old was in the hea- vens , she ...
... field ; the decision of the Battle of Life is in some degree taken from man , and science is made the arbiter of his destiny . The achievements of science in this age are tran- scendent ; her pathway of old was in the hea- vens , she ...
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... fields not only with verdure but with health and opulence ; has caused each savage aspect to retire before his cultivating hand , and if removing some of those elements which seemed essential to sub- limity of thought , has yet robed ...
... fields not only with verdure but with health and opulence ; has caused each savage aspect to retire before his cultivating hand , and if removing some of those elements which seemed essential to sub- limity of thought , has yet robed ...
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... fields , fostered war , and sang battle - songs ; the other invented the mysterious rite , erected the costly temple , the shrine , the vestment , the robe , and the imposing mum- mery ; both have sheltered idleness , both have retarded ...
... fields , fostered war , and sang battle - songs ; the other invented the mysterious rite , erected the costly temple , the shrine , the vestment , the robe , and the imposing mum- mery ; both have sheltered idleness , both have retarded ...
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... field and 6000 taken prisoners , and all crucified , lining the road from Capua to Rome , monuments of Roman power and Roman refinement . The cruel conduct of the masters of the seven - hilled 34 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS .
... field and 6000 taken prisoners , and all crucified , lining the road from Capua to Rome , monuments of Roman power and Roman refinement . The cruel conduct of the masters of the seven - hilled 34 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS .
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... field in the realm ; and they were prohibited from ever procuring their liberty , because " all the cattell and gudes , of all bondsmen , are understood to be in the power and dominion of their maister . " * We have said that the ...
... field in the realm ; and they were prohibited from ever procuring their liberty , because " all the cattell and gudes , of all bondsmen , are understood to be in the power and dominion of their maister . " * We have said that the ...
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Página 401 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Página 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Página 262 - 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 186 - 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 403 - 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 262 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Página 267 - But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
Página 213 - Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor: Or will you deem them amply paid in health, Labour's fair child, that languishes with Wealth?
Página 401 - Th' eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats. Take heart! — the Waster builds again, — A charmed life old Goodness hath; The tares may perish, — but the grain Is not for death. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night: Wake thou and watch! — the world is gray With morning light 1 THE PRISONER FOR DEBT LOOK on him!
Página 60 - Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day; that labouring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread; that sanitary police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life; that numerous comforts and luxuries which are now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within the reach of every diligent and thrifty working man.