The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, المجلد 3Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... hand , it is rather difficult to be worldly in speculation ; the mind of man , when its daily maxims are put before it , revolts from anything so stupid , so mean , so poor . It requires a consummate art to reconcile men in print to ...
... hand , it is rather difficult to be worldly in speculation ; the mind of man , when its daily maxims are put before it , revolts from anything so stupid , so mean , so poor . It requires a consummate art to reconcile men in print to ...
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... hand , as have been quoted , " elegance " is essential ; the delicate finish of fleeting forms is the only excellence they can have . The characteristic deficiencies of French literature have no room to show themselves in this class of ...
... hand , as have been quoted , " elegance " is essential ; the delicate finish of fleeting forms is the only excellence they can have . The characteristic deficiencies of French literature have no room to show themselves in this class of ...
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... hand ; a poet's is expanded and warmed at the same time that it is impelled by a pure life- blood of imagination . The French , as we have said , are hardly capable of this . When great remote ideas seize upon them at all , they become ...
... hand ; a poet's is expanded and warmed at the same time that it is impelled by a pure life- blood of imagination . The French , as we have said , are hardly capable of this . When great remote ideas seize upon them at all , they become ...
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... hand , the Frenchman has the advantage . The Latin language is clumsy . Light pleasure was an exotic in the Roman world ; the terms in which you strive to describe it suit rather the shrill camp and droning law - court . In Eng- lish ...
... hand , the Frenchman has the advantage . The Latin language is clumsy . Light pleasure was an exotic in the Roman world ; the terms in which you strive to describe it suit rather the shrill camp and droning law - court . In Eng- lish ...
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... hand touches them . Their fame is itself half an obstacle to their popularity ; a delicate fancy shrinks from employing so great a celebrity as the companion of an idle hour . The generation which is really most influenced by a work of ...
... hand touches them . Their fame is itself half an obstacle to their popularity ; a delicate fancy shrinks from employing so great a celebrity as the companion of an idle hour . The generation which is really most influenced by a work of ...
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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.