The Contemporary Review, Volumen37A. Strahan, 1880 |
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... Greek Christian Inscriptions . By the Rev. George T. Stokes D.C.L. 956 977 • The Rule of the Purse . By T. P. O'Connor , M.P. 990 91 " " " " The Age of Balzac . By W. S. Lilly Contemporary Books : - I. Classical Literature , under the ...
... Greek Christian Inscriptions . By the Rev. George T. Stokes D.C.L. 956 977 • The Rule of the Purse . By T. P. O'Connor , M.P. 990 91 " " " " The Age of Balzac . By W. S. Lilly Contemporary Books : - I. Classical Literature , under the ...
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... Greek experience , could form no conception . Well , let us examine the action of large properties in detail ; I am not a Radical ; and can have , assuredly , no prejudice against them , because they are , in this country , a notable ...
... Greek experience , could form no conception . Well , let us examine the action of large properties in detail ; I am not a Radical ; and can have , assuredly , no prejudice against them , because they are , in this country , a notable ...
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... Greek adage — oi woλλoi kakoί -be altogether false , the majority will always be found to have been in favour of the abuse . Nay ; has it not been well said that power , pleasure , and pence , are the three baits of the devil ; and the ...
... Greek adage — oi woλλoi kakoί -be altogether false , the majority will always be found to have been in favour of the abuse . Nay ; has it not been well said that power , pleasure , and pence , are the three baits of the devil ; and the ...
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... Greek , or the most Evangelical of the inspired Hebrews , imperatively commands us to say it -that the founding of a family , and the locking up of the land in a suc- cession of generations , is an excess and an abuse , which , like the ...
... Greek , or the most Evangelical of the inspired Hebrews , imperatively commands us to say it -that the founding of a family , and the locking up of the land in a suc- cession of generations , is an excess and an abuse , which , like the ...
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... Greek , And readily construed Lucretius ; — Had read the great stone Book whereon is writ The riddle of the world from age to age ; Knew the fair marvels of the Zodiac , The stars and their processions ; had by heart The elemental ...
... Greek , And readily construed Lucretius ; — Had read the great stone Book whereon is writ The riddle of the world from age to age ; Knew the fair marvels of the Zodiac , The stars and their processions ; had by heart The elemental ...
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Página 212 - Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Página 312 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed ? Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 296 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Página 703 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Página 549 - A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government...
Página 548 - No one has a deeper disapprobation than I have of this Mormon institution; both for other reasons, and because, far from being in any way countenanced by the principle of liberty, it is a direct infraction of that principle, being a mere riveting of the chains of one half of the community, and an emancipation of the other from reciprocity of obligation towards them.
Página 549 - If the government would make up its mind to require for every child a good education, it might save itself the trouble of providing one. It might leave to parents to obtain the education where and how they pleased, and content itself with helping to pay the school fees of the poorer classes of children, and defraying the entire school expenses of those who have no one else to pay for them.
Página 301 - I shall do all that in me lies to discourage the woollen manufacture in Ireland, and to encourage the linen manufacture there, and to promote the trade of England.
Página 543 - In this age the quiet surface of routine is as often ruffled by attempts to resuscitate past evils as to introduce new benefits. What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much the revival of bigotry; and where there is the strong permanent leaven of intolerance in the feelings of a people, which at all times abides in the middle classes of this country, it needs but little to provoke them into actively persecuting those...
Página 63 - Ethics has for its subject-matter, that form which universal conduct assumes during the last stages of its evolution.