Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays: With a Memoir and an Index, المجلد 2Hurd and Houghton, 1866 |
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... interests . To affirm this would be a contradiction in terms . The community within itself , and with respect to itself , can have no sinister interest . One community may intend the evil of another ; never its own . This is an ...
... interests . To affirm this would be a contradiction in terms . The community within itself , and with respect to itself , can have no sinister interest . One community may intend the evil of another ; never its own . This is an ...
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... third ? " The analysis which we have already performed will enable us to trace rapidly the concatenation of causes and effects in this imagined case . " We have already seen that the interest of the MILL'S ESSAY ON GOVERNMENT . 21.
... third ? " The analysis which we have already performed will enable us to trace rapidly the concatenation of causes and effects in this imagined case . " We have already seen that the interest of the MILL'S ESSAY ON GOVERNMENT . 21.
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... interest of the community , considered in the aggregate , or in the democratical point of view , is , that each individual should receive protection ; and that the powers which are constituted for that purpose should be employed ...
... interest of the community , considered in the aggregate , or in the democratical point of view , is , that each individual should receive protection ; and that the powers which are constituted for that purpose should be employed ...
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... interests of the majority . Where there are two portions of power differing in kind , there is , we admit , no criterion of equality . But then , in such a case , it is absurd to talk , as Mr. Mill does , about the stronger and the ...
... interests of the majority . Where there are two portions of power differing in kind , there is , we admit , no criterion of equality . But then , in such a case , it is absurd to talk , as Mr. Mill does , about the stronger and the ...
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... interest of the de- mocracy is that each individual should receive protec- tion . The interest of the King and the aristocracy is to have all the power that they can obtain , and to use it for their own ends . Therefore the King and the ...
... interest of the de- mocracy is that each individual should receive protec- tion . The interest of the King and the aristocracy is to have all the power that they can obtain , and to use it for their own ends . Therefore the King and the ...
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الصفحة 390 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
الصفحة 211 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
الصفحة 324 - The style is agreeable, clear, and manly, and, when it rises into eloquence, rises without effort or ostentation. Nor is the matter inferior to the manner. It would be difficult to name a book...
الصفحة 343 - ... of knowledge, clipped like one of the limes behind the Tuilleries, standing in the centre of the grand alley, the snake twined round it, the man on the right hand, the woman on the left, and the beasts drawn up in an exact circle round them.
الصفحة 359 - Byron could exhibit only one man and only one woman, a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection...
الصفحة 254 - This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought. There is no ascent, no declivity, no resting-place, no turn-stile, with which we are not perfectly acquainted.
الصفحة 253 - It is not so with the Pilgrim's Progress. That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Doctor Johnson, all whose studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress.
الصفحة 266 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
الصفحة 203 - We take this to be, on the whole, the worst similitude in the world. In the first place, no stream meanders, or can possibly meander, level with its fount. In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like each other than that of meandering level and that of mounting upwards.
الصفحة 266 - May I speak a few words in my own defence? JUDGE. Sirrah ! Sirrah ! thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet, that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.