The Contemporary Review, Volumen37A. Strahan, 1880 |
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... interest required it ; bribery everywhere , and the grossest self - seeking among the governing classes , combined with seeming lethargy among the governed : such is the spectacle that presents itself to the student of this period of ...
... interest required it ; bribery everywhere , and the grossest self - seeking among the governing classes , combined with seeming lethargy among the governed : such is the spectacle that presents itself to the student of this period of ...
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... interests were at stake , to buy the votes of opponents . The House was very jealous over its privileges : it sought ... interests of party to outweigh , even in its foreign politics , the true interests of the country ; the overweening ...
... interests were at stake , to buy the votes of opponents . The House was very jealous over its privileges : it sought ... interests of party to outweigh , even in its foreign politics , the true interests of the country ; the overweening ...
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... interest still forms the foreground both in the " Traveller " and in the " Vicar of Wakefield . " All these were themselves middle - class men , who belonged , by profes- sion , to the literary craft , in contrast to the fashionable ...
... interest still forms the foreground both in the " Traveller " and in the " Vicar of Wakefield . " All these were themselves middle - class men , who belonged , by profes- sion , to the literary craft , in contrast to the fashionable ...
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... interest in the Church . I say the artistic revival , for even then there was always more truth in the lukewarm Church of England than in German ecclesias- tical life ; while , on the other hand , the religious life in Germany is ...
... interest in the Church . I say the artistic revival , for even then there was always more truth in the lukewarm Church of England than in German ecclesias- tical life ; while , on the other hand , the religious life in Germany is ...
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... interest of something like conscious oneness . A man is not an egotist when he tells the story of his adventures to his wife or sister . There is another topic to which the letter we have quoted points very clearly . There is all the ...
... interest of something like conscious oneness . A man is not an egotist when he tells the story of his adventures to his wife or sister . There is another topic to which the letter we have quoted points very clearly . There is all the ...
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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...
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