The Fortnightly, Volumen25Chapman and Hall., 1876 |
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... existence — its purchasers . Both requisites have failed us , and that is the reason why amongst us general markets are dwindling to nothing , or have already in many places utterly died away . Market - day with us now means in the main ...
... existence — its purchasers . Both requisites have failed us , and that is the reason why amongst us general markets are dwindling to nothing , or have already in many places utterly died away . Market - day with us now means in the main ...
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... existence- at least in the world of letters - the two miracles of study and of sympathy which have given Shakespeare to the French and Rabe- lais to the English , and each in his habit as he lived , may take rank together in glorious ...
... existence- at least in the world of letters - the two miracles of study and of sympathy which have given Shakespeare to the French and Rabe- lais to the English , and each in his habit as he lived , may take rank together in glorious ...
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... existence of abuses and of popular discontent . Then , again , the " literati and gentry " form a most influential class , in which is included all candidates for office , and a large number of those who have held office , and either ...
... existence of abuses and of popular discontent . Then , again , the " literati and gentry " form a most influential class , in which is included all candidates for office , and a large number of those who have held office , and either ...
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... existence of Europeans able to com- municate with the people in their own language would alone suffice to make any attempt at government among the millions of a single province impracticable . All the Western world could not produce ...
... existence of Europeans able to com- municate with the people in their own language would alone suffice to make any attempt at government among the millions of a single province impracticable . All the Western world could not produce ...
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... existence by these subsidies , and the system has many opponents . But they are not able , so far as I am aware , to point to scandalous abuses or glaring blunders . Without this stimulant , the Prussian railway system would not be so ...
... existence by these subsidies , and the system has many opponents . But they are not able , so far as I am aware , to point to scandalous abuses or glaring blunders . Without this stimulant , the Prussian railway system would not be so ...
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Página 194 - The river nobly foams and flows, The charm of this enchanted ground, And all its thousand turns disclose Some fresher beauty varying round; The haughtiest breast its wish might bound Through life to dwell delighted here; Nor could on earth a spot be found To nature and to me so dear, Could thy dear eyes in following mine Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine!
Página 123 - When I stand before the throne Dressed in beauty not my own, When I see thee as thou art, Love thee with unsinning heart, Then, Lord, shall I fully knowNot till then — how much I owe. When the praise of heaven I hear, Loud as thunders to the ear, Loud as many waters...
Página 508 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our Constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Página 757 - Brimming, and bright, and large : then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles...
Página 511 - That Tickell should have been guilty of a villany seems to us highly improbable. That Addison should have been guilty of a villany seems to us highly improbable. But that these two men should have conspired together to commit a villany seems to us improbable in a tenfold degree.
Página 738 - ... natural disinclination which every man has to quit the country of his birth and connexions, and intrust himself with all his habits fixed, to a strange government and new laws, check the emigration of capital. These feelings, which I should be sorry to see weakened, induce most men of property to be satisfied with a low rate of profits in their own country, rather than seek a more advantageous employment for their wealth in foreign nations.
Página 502 - English allies advanced to the combat, and expressed the delight of a true soldier, when he learned that it was ever the fashion of Cromwell's pikemen to rejoice greatly when they beheld the enemy ; and the banished Cavaliers felt an emotion of national pride, when they saw a brigade of their countrymen, outnumbered by foes and abandoned by...
Página 348 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Página 26 - The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea; And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades That drag the tragic, melancholy night, Who with their drowsy, slow, and flagging wings Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws Breathe foul, contagious darkness in the air.
Página 595 - This tone consisted chiefly in making the proper distinction between the laws of the Production of Wealth, which are real laws of nature, dependent on the properties of objects, and the modes of its Distribution, which, subject to certain conditions, depend on human will.