The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, المجلد 3Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... least one great advantage . It has half - abolished one of the worst consequences of the diver- sity of languages . Literature enables nations to understand one another . Oral intercourse hardly does this . In English , a distinguished ...
... least one great advantage . It has half - abolished one of the worst consequences of the diver- sity of languages . Literature enables nations to understand one another . Oral intercourse hardly does this . In English , a distinguished ...
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... least of unspeakable depth , partake most of what is perishable and earthly , and least of the immortal soul . The objects of these desires are social accidents ; excellent , perhaps , essential , possibly — so is human nature made — in ...
... least of unspeakable depth , partake most of what is perishable and earthly , and least of the immortal soul . The objects of these desires are social accidents ; excellent , perhaps , essential , possibly — so is human nature made — in ...
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... least in part , created a scene in which society can be conducted . Its petty conveniences may or may not be great benefits according to a recondite philosophy ; but there can be no doubt that for actual men and women in actual ...
... least in part , created a scene in which society can be conducted . Its petty conveniences may or may not be great benefits according to a recondite philosophy ; but there can be no doubt that for actual men and women in actual ...
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... least professedly devoted to it . How far this is due to real excellence , how far to the bourgeois and not very outspoken temper of our recent writers , we need not in this place discuss . There is no occasion to quote in this country ...
... least professedly devoted to it . How far this is due to real excellence , how far to the bourgeois and not very outspoken temper of our recent writers , we need not in this place discuss . There is no occasion to quote in this country ...
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... least the commence- ment of literary life , which is quite removed from the un- bounded enthusiasm with which the Scotch novels were originally received , and does not always share the still more eager partiality of those who , in the ...
... least the commence- ment of literary life , which is quite removed from the un- bounded enthusiasm with which the Scotch novels were originally received , and does not always share the still more eager partiality of those who , in the ...
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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.