The Friendship of Books and Other LecturesMacmillan, 1880 - 384 Seiten |
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... beginning of our periodical liter- ature . Perhaps they are ; but they are very unlike what we describe by that name in our day . There is no We in them . Though the papers have letters of the alphabet , and not names , put to them ...
... beginning of our periodical liter- ature . Perhaps they are ; but they are very unlike what we describe by that name in our day . There is no We in them . Though the papers have letters of the alphabet , and not names , put to them ...
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... beginning well , because I believe you may find in it the explanation of all its different periods of progress or of decline . It does not begin from some learned schoolmen ; it does not begin from some condescending monarch who ...
... beginning well , because I believe you may find in it the explanation of all its different periods of progress or of decline . It does not begin from some learned schoolmen ; it does not begin from some condescending monarch who ...
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... beginning to form the corpo- rations of towns . In due time , when there were men who wanted a native tongue , when it could be again the speech of free citizens and free men , it would come forth purified , expanded , strengthened , to ...
... beginning to form the corpo- rations of towns . In due time , when there were men who wanted a native tongue , when it could be again the speech of free citizens and free men , it would come forth purified , expanded , strengthened , to ...
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... beginning to speak of abuses . But I am satisfied there is a use in the Police reports , and my present business is with that . The very name police is worth thinking about . It comes from a word that means a city . It is one of the ...
... beginning to speak of abuses . But I am satisfied there is a use in the Police reports , and my present business is with that . The very name police is worth thinking about . It comes from a word that means a city . It is one of the ...
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... beginning of my lecture . You might have thought it an idle or extra- vagant comparison ; but what is there in the force of gunpowder that can be measured against this force ? If we had a barrel of that in our houses , what would it be ...
... beginning of my lecture . You might have thought it an idle or extra- vagant comparison ; but what is there in the force of gunpowder that can be measured against this force ? If we had a barrel of that in our houses , what would it be ...
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Seite 316 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
Seite 253 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Seite 242 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Seite 316 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Seite 324 - ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Seite 324 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest — that of the whole : where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 322 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 323 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion ... if government were a matter of will upon my side, yours, without question, ought to be superior.
Seite 266 - Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives.
Seite 278 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.