Thoughts of the times; or, Men and thingsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 255 من الصفحات |
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... human suffer- ing , provided it was a means of accomplishing their ends . We have here too the first recorded age of terror , as Sylla and Marius successively gained the ascendancy , which each employed to proscribe the other's ...
... human suffer- ing , provided it was a means of accomplishing their ends . We have here too the first recorded age of terror , as Sylla and Marius successively gained the ascendancy , which each employed to proscribe the other's ...
الصفحة 10
... human beings . Such a state of things required a tempest to purify the moral atmosphere , and when it came it was tremendous . But , it may be asked , why did not Christianity regenerate mankind ? Real Christians , alas ! have been in ...
... human beings . Such a state of things required a tempest to purify the moral atmosphere , and when it came it was tremendous . But , it may be asked , why did not Christianity regenerate mankind ? Real Christians , alas ! have been in ...
الصفحة 17
... violent . Ridiculed as it has been , for the most part , by vulgar - minded men who could not believe in disinterestedness , it did good service to humanity . C In our own time , doubtless , the objects proposed OF HISTORY . 17.
... violent . Ridiculed as it has been , for the most part , by vulgar - minded men who could not believe in disinterestedness , it did good service to humanity . C In our own time , doubtless , the objects proposed OF HISTORY . 17.
الصفحة 19
... human nature is one we can ourselves never expect to see , but because it is difficult to comprehend how they could be so near to us and yet so different in character . Louis XI . of France and Henry VII . of England , two of the three ...
... human nature is one we can ourselves never expect to see , but because it is difficult to comprehend how they could be so near to us and yet so different in character . Louis XI . of France and Henry VII . of England , two of the three ...
الصفحة 30
... first ten , and afterwards three , - armed with an authority above all laws , was as complete as human ingenuity could devise . An aristocracy so rigidly exclusive could not otherwise have con- tinued so 30 OF HISTORY .
... first ten , and afterwards three , - armed with an authority above all laws , was as complete as human ingenuity could devise . An aristocracy so rigidly exclusive could not otherwise have con- tinued so 30 OF HISTORY .
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الصفحة 171 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider...
الصفحة 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
الصفحة 99 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
الصفحة 91 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
الصفحة 145 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
الصفحة 144 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
الصفحة 95 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
الصفحة 94 - Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
الصفحة 85 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
الصفحة 119 - I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation.