The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesPartridge and Oakley, 1852 - 456 страница |
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... called back to the venerated models , while they have an irresistible tendency to depart from it . To borrow an expressive phrase from a modern writer , they are " tethered to the stump of old superstitions . " Thus the morality of a ...
... called back to the venerated models , while they have an irresistible tendency to depart from it . To borrow an expressive phrase from a modern writer , they are " tethered to the stump of old superstitions . " Thus the morality of a ...
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... called them before the world ; a gifted and superior sensi- bility , when it is allied with active virtue , is the truest character of the reformer ; yet these men , who have been lifted so far beyond the ordinary men of their race ...
... called them before the world ; a gifted and superior sensi- bility , when it is allied with active virtue , is the truest character of the reformer ; yet these men , who have been lifted so far beyond the ordinary men of their race ...
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... should be as easily and clearly demonstrated as those of chemical or mathematical science . It is science which has called so wonderfully into play the new conceptions of man , partly true , partly false THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 13.
... should be as easily and clearly demonstrated as those of chemical or mathematical science . It is science which has called so wonderfully into play the new conceptions of man , partly true , partly false THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 13.
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... the monotony of life , and has called into existence , at the same time , the most illustrious virtues and the most execrable vices . Democracy is the thirst of the human intellect for power , and 14 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS .
... the monotony of life , and has called into existence , at the same time , the most illustrious virtues and the most execrable vices . Democracy is the thirst of the human intellect for power , and 14 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS .
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... called up the city from the desolation of the desert , with the sound of whirring wheels , tall chimnies , and smoky skies , but issuing forth bales of paper , cotton , cloth , and books , for the world's young colonies and farms : it ...
... called up the city from the desolation of the desert , with the sound of whirring wheels , tall chimnies , and smoky skies , but issuing forth bales of paper , cotton , cloth , and books , for the world's young colonies and farms : it ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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?
Страница 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!
Страница 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.