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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... learned to make the most of their country ; we hear of their gauds and grandeur , but nothing of those more precious . mementos of a nation's happiness which abound with us . " The flags of London , which occupy about one - sixth of the ...
... learned to make the most of their country ; we hear of their gauds and grandeur , but nothing of those more precious . mementos of a nation's happiness which abound with us . " The flags of London , which occupy about one - sixth of the ...
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... learned work of Sir F. M. Eden , to which this chapter must acknowledge itself indebted for many of its facts , and compare the interest- ing statements in the first volume with the tables adduced in the last . During the course of many ...
... learned work of Sir F. M. Eden , to which this chapter must acknowledge itself indebted for many of its facts , and compare the interest- ing statements in the first volume with the tables adduced in the last . During the course of many ...
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... learned to think for ourselves . But have we liberated our minds from the disposition to exercise inexorable tyranny over the thoughts of others ? In many circles the calm and un- obtrusive virtues are surrounded by no charms ; virtues ...
... learned to think for ourselves . But have we liberated our minds from the disposition to exercise inexorable tyranny over the thoughts of others ? In many circles the calm and un- obtrusive virtues are surrounded by no charms ; virtues ...
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... learned the great lesson , that not men but MAN should be supreme . We are suffering from the most afflictive com- bination of circumstances ever interfering with the growth of a people . In specifying them , we run the risk of telling ...
... learned the great lesson , that not men but MAN should be supreme . We are suffering from the most afflictive com- bination of circumstances ever interfering with the growth of a people . In specifying them , we run the risk of telling ...
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... learned the sanctity of loneliness , he learned the superior happiness of retiring with his own family to his own roof- but the arrangements of society have denied him this now still we say , he has within him a sense of high wants , of ...
... learned the sanctity of loneliness , he learned the superior happiness of retiring with his own family to his own roof- but the arrangements of society have denied him this now still we say , he has within him a sense of high wants , of ...
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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.