England: Her People, Polity, and PursuitsH. Holt, 1880 - 625 páginas |
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... taken be right or wrong , it is at least that which has been taken con- sistently , and I hope it will have the effect of imparting to the entire work a certain air of unity and cohesion . Again , though I cannot hope to have escaped ...
... taken be right or wrong , it is at least that which has been taken con- sistently , and I hope it will have the effect of imparting to the entire work a certain air of unity and cohesion . Again , though I cannot hope to have escaped ...
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... taken , schools of thought multiply , societies for action increase . What was simple becomes complex , what was always complex becomes more complex still . It will be the chief part of our duty in the following pages to analyze and ...
... taken , schools of thought multiply , societies for action increase . What was simple becomes complex , what was always complex becomes more complex still . It will be the chief part of our duty in the following pages to analyze and ...
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... taken exception to some- thing that was said , sung , or done in church , last Sunday ; protests that he or she distinctly saw the pastor make , or fail to make , some specific genuflexion at a certain point of the service ; THE ENGLISH ...
... taken exception to some- thing that was said , sung , or done in church , last Sunday ; protests that he or she distinctly saw the pastor make , or fail to make , some specific genuflexion at a certain point of the service ; THE ENGLISH ...
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... taken verbatim from a long list addressed by a promi- nent member of the Union , Mr. George Mitchell , to the rural laborers of Eng- land , on the eve of an agricultural demonstration near Yeovil , on Whit Monday . his helpless victims ...
... taken verbatim from a long list addressed by a promi- nent member of the Union , Mr. George Mitchell , to the rural laborers of Eng- land , on the eve of an agricultural demonstration near Yeovil , on Whit Monday . his helpless victims ...
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... taken . It is a peculiarity of the Northumberland prop- erty that in almost every case the laborers live within a few minutes ' call of the farmer who employs them . Each farm is in fact a com- pact , self - contained , industrial ...
... taken . It is a peculiarity of the Northumberland prop- erty that in almost every case the laborers live within a few minutes ' call of the farmer who employs them . Each farm is in fact a com- pact , self - contained , industrial ...
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agricultural amongst army authority boys called capital character chief Church Church of England classes clerk club colonies committee Council Court districts Duke duties employed employers England English established exist fact factory Factory Acts foreign French gentlemen George Eliot given Government hand Herbert Spencer House of Commons House of Lords industry influence institutions interest kind labor Lancashire landlord legislation less Liverpool London Lord Chancellor machinery Manchester manufacturing matter ment ministers modern moral municipal nature once organization parish Parliament parliamentary passed Paterfamilias pauperism peers perhaps persons political Poor Law popular position practical present principle profession Quarter Sessions Queen's counsel question railway representative scarcely social society spirit success tendency thing tion town trade United Kingdom village wages women workhouse
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Página 525 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 590 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Página 353 - she could dismiss all the sailors too; she could sell off ' all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could ' make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin ' a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make ' every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, ' a peer; she could make every parish in the United ' Kingdom a "university;" she could dismiss most of ' the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders.
Página 497 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
Página 429 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Página 354 - Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.
Página 163 - But whilst these outrages must be admitted to exist to an alarming extent, it cannot be denied that they have arisen from circumstances of the most unparalleled distress. The perseverance of these miserable men in their proceedings, tends to prove that nothing but absolute want could have driven a large, and once honest and industrious, body of the people, into the commission iv. , 33 of excesses so hazardous to themselves, their families, and the community.
Página 509 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone.
Página 496 - Round the physical feeling forming the nucleus of the whole, are gathered the feelings produced by personal beauty, that constituting simple attachment, those of reverence, of love of approbation, of self-esteem, of property, of love of freedom, of sympathy. These, all greatly exalted, and severally tending to reflect their excitements on one another, unite to form the mental state we call love."* Hence emotional, moral, and intellectual qualities may, by evoking affection, approbation, or admiration,...
Página 429 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the church and of the ministers thereof shall be retained and be in use as was in this Church of England by authority of parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth until other order shall be therein taken by the authority of the queen's majesty, with the advice of her commissioners appointed and authorized under the great seal of England for causes ecclesiastical or of the metropolitan of this realm.