The Works of Walter Bagehot ..., المجلد 31891 |
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... things now certain , the belief in things now in- credible , the oblivion of what , now seems most im- portant , the strained attention to departed detail , which characterize the moldering leaves . Something like this is the feeling ...
... things now certain , the belief in things now in- credible , the oblivion of what , now seems most im- portant , the strained attention to departed detail , which characterize the moldering leaves . Something like this is the feeling ...
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... thing before in my life , " and he thinks this a reductio ad absurdum . You may see his taste by the reading of which he approves . Is there a more splendid monument of talent and industry than the Times ? No wonder - that the average ...
... thing before in my life , " and he thinks this a reductio ad absurdum . You may see his taste by the reading of which he approves . Is there a more splendid monument of talent and industry than the Times ? No wonder - that the average ...
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... things of their age ; for no one expects they will go out and act on them . " They are a kind of ticket - of - leave ... thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid . " - ED . " " * were aggrieved when Mr ...
... things of their age ; for no one expects they will go out and act on them . " They are a kind of ticket - of - leave ... thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid . " - ED . " " * were aggrieved when Mr ...
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... things on its surface ; and slowly , grain by grain , a mold of wise experience is unconsciously left on the still , extended intellect . You scarcely think of such a mind as acting : it seems always acted upon . There is no trace of ...
... things on its surface ; and slowly , grain by grain , a mold of wise experience is unconsciously left on the still , extended intellect . You scarcely think of such a mind as acting : it seems always acted upon . There is no trace of ...
الصفحة 18
... things ; the mere tools of civiliza- tion seem in some sort to augment work . In early times , when a despot wishes ... thing is different : you erect a bureau in the province you want to govern , you make it write let- ters and copy ...
... things ; the mere tools of civiliza- tion seem in some sort to augment work . In early times , when a despot wishes ... thing is different : you erect a bureau in the province you want to govern , you make it write let- ters and copy ...
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الصفحة 380 - 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 278 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
الصفحة 106 - ... 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 ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm...
الصفحة 40 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
الصفحة 105 - 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 299 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
الصفحة 278 - His reputation as a Professor was accordingly raised very high, and a multitude of students from a great distance resorted to the University, merely upon his account. Those branches of science which he taught became fashionable at this place, and his opinions were the chief topics of discussion in clubs and literary societies. Even the small peculiarities in his pronunciation or manner of speaking, became frequently the objects of imitation.
الصفحة 202 - His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination has often been heated and exhausted with his body, in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night; and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic Bacchanals.
الصفحة 174 - Once more thy beauty its full lustre wear ; Moved by his love, by his example taught, Soon shall thy soul, once more with virtue fraught, With kind and generous truth thy bosom warm, And thy fair mind, like thy fair person, charm. To virtue thus and to thyself restored, By all admired, by one alone adored, Be to thy Harry ever kind and true, And live for him who more than dies for you.
الصفحة 302 - I shall be accused of going too far, when I say, that he was scarcely ever known to start a new topic himself, or to appear unprepared upon those topics that were introduced by others. Indeed, his conversation was never more amusing than when he gave a loose to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines.