The Fortnightly, Band 13Chapman and Hall., 1870 |
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... probably Marlowe's earliest work , certainly the first which made an impression on the public - if we would express it in the simplest way , is the mere lust of dominion , the passion of " a mighty hunter before the Lord " for sovereign ...
... probably Marlowe's earliest work , certainly the first which made an impression on the public - if we would express it in the simplest way , is the mere lust of dominion , the passion of " a mighty hunter before the Lord " for sovereign ...
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... probably much under the mark . So ( 1 ) Hall . , i . 121 n . " William the Conqueror , it is said , distributed this kingdom into 60,000 parcels of nearly equal value , from each of which the service of a soldier was due . " ( No ...
... probably much under the mark . So ( 1 ) Hall . , i . 121 n . " William the Conqueror , it is said , distributed this kingdom into 60,000 parcels of nearly equal value , from each of which the service of a soldier was due . " ( No ...
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that 60,000 knights ' fees would contain 40,800,000 acres at least , and more probably 72,000,000 acres . Now the whole acreage of England is only 32,590,429 acres , and from five to ten million acres . of this are uncultivated wastes ...
that 60,000 knights ' fees would contain 40,800,000 acres at least , and more probably 72,000,000 acres . Now the whole acreage of England is only 32,590,429 acres , and from five to ten million acres . of this are uncultivated wastes ...
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... probably a fair record of the owners and occupiers of land and for the agricultural population , the population of the towns and cities being generally omitted from it . From the object of the record , and the fact that no enumeration ...
... probably a fair record of the owners and occupiers of land and for the agricultural population , the population of the towns and cities being generally omitted from it . From the object of the record , and the fact that no enumeration ...
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... probably erring on the safe side . Having now disposed of the numbers of the total population , and obtained , as I think , some solid ground on which to build , let us go back to the Domesday Survey , and divide up its total into the ...
... probably erring on the safe side . Having now disposed of the numbers of the total population , and obtained , as I think , some solid ground on which to build , let us go back to the Domesday Survey , and divide up its total into the ...
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Seite 426 - 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 593 - 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 77 - Nature that fram'd us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Seite 228 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands, as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial, sheep...
Seite 612 - 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 227 - He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Seite 568 - ... which Surtees of Mainsforth passed off even upon Scott as genuine ; and yet it is so far a copy that it seems hardly well to have gone so far and no further. On this ground Mr. Morris has a firmer tread than the great artist by the light of whose genius and kindly guidance he put forth the firstfruits of his work, as I did afterwards. In his first book the ballad of " Welland River," the Christmas carol in " The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon...
Seite 306 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Seite 82 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd 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...