The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, المجلد 3Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... English , a distinguished foreigner says not what he thinks , but what he can . There is a certain intimate essence of national mean- ing which is as untranslatable as good poetry . Dry thoughts are cosmopolitan ; but the delicate ...
... English , a distinguished foreigner says not what he thinks , but what he can . There is a certain intimate essence of national mean- ing which is as untranslatable as good poetry . Dry thoughts are cosmopolitan ; but the delicate ...
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... English genius is just the opposite . Our cumbrous intellect has no call to light artificialities . We do not excel in punctuated detail or nicely - squared elaboration . It puts us out of patience that others should . A respectable ...
... English genius is just the opposite . Our cumbrous intellect has no call to light artificialities . We do not excel in punctuated detail or nicely - squared elaboration . It puts us out of patience that others should . A respectable ...
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... English , and were not intended to mean anything particular , only to be an elegant attention ; but you might as well ask a young lady to take brandy with you as compliment her in this intense manner . The eager peasant - poet was at ...
... English , and were not intended to mean anything particular , only to be an elegant attention ; but you might as well ask a young lady to take brandy with you as compliment her in this intense manner . The eager peasant - poet was at ...
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... English literature and character . An Eng- lishman can scarcely live on the surface ; his passions are too strong , his power of finesse too little . Accordingly , since Defoe , who treated the subject with a coarse matter - of ...
... English literature and character . An Eng- lishman can scarcely live on the surface ; his passions are too strong , his power of finesse too little . Accordingly , since Defoe , who treated the subject with a coarse matter - of ...
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... English- man will now care for many of Béranger's songs which were once in the mouths of all his countrymen , which coloured the manners of revolutions , perhaps influenced their course . The fame of a poet may have a reference to ...
... English- man will now care for many of Béranger's songs which were once in the mouths of all his countrymen , which coloured the manners of revolutions , perhaps influenced their course . The fame of a poet may have a reference to ...
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الصفحة 190 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
الصفحة 30 - Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King!
الصفحة 30 - Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east, where lay Extended in succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. Where dwell we now? See, rudely swell Crag over crag, fell over fell.
الصفحة 190 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st...
الصفحة 315 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
الصفحة 273 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
الصفحة 178 - As with the force of winds and waters pent, When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, or priests, Their choice nobility and flower, not only Of this, but each Philistian city round, Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Samson, with these...
الصفحة 358 - ... and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president.