The Fortnightly, Band 7;Band 13Chapman and Hall., 1870 |
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... population , the extent of France , and to the political system of Europe . " Yet the reasons which he gives for thinking this are not very cogent , and he can hardly have felt them to be so ; moreover , he would hardly have made any ...
... population , the extent of France , and to the political system of Europe . " Yet the reasons which he gives for thinking this are not very cogent , and he can hardly have felt them to be so ; moreover , he would hardly have made any ...
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... population has accordingly varied with the greater or less degree of enlightenment or of sound moral feeling on the part of the rulers . Over Europe , wherever the land is not owned by the cultivators , custom or law very generally ...
... population has accordingly varied with the greater or less degree of enlightenment or of sound moral feeling on the part of the rulers . Over Europe , wherever the land is not owned by the cultivators , custom or law very generally ...
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... population entered the list of competition . It appears then that , even conceding the argument that the pur- chase of the occupancy right would for the incoming tenant be equivalent to an increase of rent , still this increase ...
... population entered the list of competition . It appears then that , even conceding the argument that the pur- chase of the occupancy right would for the incoming tenant be equivalent to an increase of rent , still this increase ...
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... population with which he commenced business that scarcely any of the characters remained alive at the end of Act the first . " Five crops had to be taken off the ground in the tragedy , amounting , in short , to five tragedies involved ...
... population with which he commenced business that scarcely any of the characters remained alive at the end of Act the first . " Five crops had to be taken off the ground in the tragedy , amounting , in short , to five tragedies involved ...
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... population of England were landholders — not owners of land , but feudal tenants with security of tenure - and then to trace how feudal tenures and feudal principles have , in English history , gradually been supplanted by commercial ...
... population of England were landholders — not owners of land , but feudal tenants with security of tenure - and then to trace how feudal tenures and feudal principles have , in English history , gradually been supplanted by commercial ...
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Seite 76 - Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds : Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Seite 81 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least,...
Seite 564 - From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds. Her gaze still strove Within the gulf to pierce Its path; and now she spoke as when The stars sang in their spheres.
Seite 425 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Seite 592 - The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people.
Seite 78 - Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Seite 76 - Nature that fram'd us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Seite 80 - O my girl, My gold, my fortune, my felicity! Strength to my soul, death to mine enemy! Welcome the first beginner of my bliss!
Seite 611 - Queen's positive command to your grace, that you avoid engaging in any siege or hazarding a battle till you have further orders from her Majesty. I am at the same time directed to let your grace know that the Queen would have you disguise the receipt of this order...
Seite 61 - Those laws and customs so favourable to the yeomanry have perhaps contributed more to the present grandeur of England than all their boasted regulations of commerce taken together.