Thoughts of the times; or, Men and thingsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 255 من الصفحات |
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... spirit of the age has obtruded itself ; forgetting that many parts , without union , will not make one whole , we must have our division of labour , and forthwith issue from divers intellectual mills histories picturesque which do not ...
... spirit of the age has obtruded itself ; forgetting that many parts , without union , will not make one whole , we must have our division of labour , and forthwith issue from divers intellectual mills histories picturesque which do not ...
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... spirit of chivalry . Circumstances per- mitted some men to become heroes . The resem- blance between the men of the world of the last century of the Roman republic and the men of the world of the present day , is not more striking than ...
... spirit of chivalry . Circumstances per- mitted some men to become heroes . The resem- blance between the men of the world of the last century of the Roman republic and the men of the world of the present day , is not more striking than ...
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... spirit and integrity is often supported by a powerful class , and is never without friends . But a contest with the majority is a con- test with society , with a tribunal from whose sen- tence there is no appeal , and whose punishments ...
... spirit and integrity is often supported by a powerful class , and is never without friends . But a contest with the majority is a con- test with society , with a tribunal from whose sen- tence there is no appeal , and whose punishments ...
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... spirit of the Church of England of the present day is widely different from that which animated the reformers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Circumstances threw the reformers into the arms of civil freedom , but their case ...
... spirit of the Church of England of the present day is widely different from that which animated the reformers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . Circumstances threw the reformers into the arms of civil freedom , but their case ...
الصفحة 60
... themselves . Though a scriptural commentary , conceived in a spirit equally fanciful , would be exceedingly dangerous , it must be remembered that we are not likely to attribute too much meaning to the Bible 60 OF RELIGION .
... themselves . Though a scriptural commentary , conceived in a spirit equally fanciful , would be exceedingly dangerous , it must be remembered that we are not likely to attribute too much meaning to the Bible 60 OF RELIGION .
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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.