The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, المجلد 3Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... reason why physical science made so little progress in ancient times was , that people were in doubt about more interesting things ; men must have , it has been alleged , a settled creed as to human life and human hopes , before they ...
... reason why physical science made so little progress in ancient times was , that people were in doubt about more interesting things ; men must have , it has been alleged , a settled creed as to human life and human hopes , before they ...
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... in its nomenclature . The reason is that , dealing , or attempting to deal , only with the essential aboriginal principles of human nature , that school had no room and no occasion for those minor contrivances of thought 10 BÉRANGER.
... in its nomenclature . The reason is that , dealing , or attempting to deal , only with the essential aboriginal principles of human nature , that school had no room and no occasion for those minor contrivances of thought 10 BÉRANGER.
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... reason seems to be that the French character is incapable of being mastered by an unseen idea , without being so tyrannised over by it as to be incapable of artistic development . Such a character as Robespierre's may explain what we ...
... reason seems to be that the French character is incapable of being mastered by an unseen idea , without being so tyrannised over by it as to be incapable of artistic development . Such a character as Robespierre's may explain what we ...
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... reason or other , poets do crave , almost more than other men , the public approbation . To have a work of art in your imagination , and that no one else should know of it , is a great pain . But even this craving has its limits . Art ...
... reason or other , poets do crave , almost more than other men , the public approbation . To have a work of art in your imagination , and that no one else should know of it , is a great pain . But even this craving has its limits . Art ...
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... reason seems to be , that the firm sagacity of his genius comprehended the industrial aspect of poor people's life thoroughly and comprehensively , his experience brought it before him easily and naturally , and his artist's mind and ...
... reason seems to be , that the firm sagacity of his genius comprehended the industrial aspect of poor people's life thoroughly and comprehensively , his experience brought it before him easily and naturally , and his artist's mind and ...
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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.