Outlooks on Society, Literature and PoliticsTicknor, 1888 - 345 страница |
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... civil war ; for it is not so much the characteristic of a good government that it protects the property of a nation , as that it protects the property of a nation by protecting its individual possessors . It is frightful to think of the ...
... civil war ; for it is not so much the characteristic of a good government that it protects the property of a nation , as that it protects the property of a nation by protecting its individual possessors . It is frightful to think of the ...
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... Civil War . I was so perpetually conscious of his enmity , that I felt his hatred palpitating in every variation in the stock - market , especially in every fall in the price of the securities of the United States . He detested the ...
... Civil War . I was so perpetually conscious of his enmity , that I felt his hatred palpitating in every variation in the stock - market , especially in every fall in the price of the securities of the United States . He detested the ...
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... civil relations . We have not done much at inventing philosophies , and we do not claim for our two native American religions , Mormonism and Spirit Rapping , any divine honors ; but we may lay claim to a civil order which aims to ...
... civil relations . We have not done much at inventing philosophies , and we do not claim for our two native American religions , Mormonism and Spirit Rapping , any divine honors ; but we may lay claim to a civil order which aims to ...
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... civil and religious , blessings , and we return the favor when we allow them freer and fairer growth under institutions and circumstances more favorable to individual well - being . The old doctrine is the best one in spite of the new ...
... civil and religious , blessings , and we return the favor when we allow them freer and fairer growth under institutions and circumstances more favorable to individual well - being . The old doctrine is the best one in spite of the new ...
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... civil disabilities for opinion's sake before . In some countries no Catholics are allowed to hold office , in others no Protestants , in others no Jews . But it is not , we believe , in Protestant countries that Protes- tants are ...
... civil disabilities for opinion's sake before . In some countries no Catholics are allowed to hold office , in others no Protestants , in others no Jews . But it is not , we believe , in Protestant countries that Protes- tants are ...
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Страница 342 - Mama is like you, Floy. I know her by the face ! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go ! ".. - , .j, ,4 ' ' The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room.
Страница 336 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Страница 337 - Per week. Yes. As to the amount of strain upon the intellect now. Was you thinking at all of poetry?' Mr Wegg inquired, musing. 'Would it come dearer?' Mr Boffin asked. 'It would come dearer,' Mr Wegg returned. 'For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.
Страница 252 - ... temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a selfmade man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.
Страница 252 - A big, loud man, with a stare and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
Страница 57 - I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves...
Страница 342 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion ! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death!
Страница 322 - m getting more used up every day, and I 'm proud to be so. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you 'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Страница 52 - ... his hind limbs, while it has been said that all the apes possess four hands ; and he has been affirmed to differ fundamentally from all the apes in the characters of his brain, which alone, it has been strangely asserted and reasserted, exhibits the structures known to anatomists as the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle and the hippocampus minor.
Страница 141 - That lie upon her charmed heart. She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.