The Atlantis, Volumen3

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1862

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Página 376 - ANCIENT LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF WALES; comprising Laws supposed to be enacted by Howel the Good ; modified by subsequent Regulations under the Native Princes, prior to the Conquest by Edward the First ; and anomalous Laws, consisting principally of Institutions which, by' the Statute of Ruddlan, were admitted to continue in force.
Página 46 - ... aristocracy is a state of Nature — and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much, at least, in a state of Nature in formed manhood as in immature and helpless infancy.
Página 13 - This principle is the great spring of the activity of our minds, and their chief feeder. From this principle the direction of the sexual appetite, and all the passions connected with it, take their origin...
Página 46 - To be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your fellow-citizens in their highest concerns, and that you act as a reconciler between God and man — To be employed as an administrator of law and justice, and to be thereby amongst the first benefactors to mankind...
Página 46 - A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part of any large body rightly constituted. It is formed out of a class of legitimate presumptions, which, taken as generalities, must be admitted for actual truths.
Página 39 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Página 46 - ... science, or of liberal and ingenuous art - to be amongst rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice- these are the circumstances of men, that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation.
Página 46 - The clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored and turned over and over, were never etherealized into thought. Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast becoming cloddish. Our labor symbolized nothing, and left us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening. Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise. The yeoman and the scholar— the yeoman and the man of finest moral culture, though not the man of sturdiest sense and integrity— are two distinct individuals,...
Página 46 - ... to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty ; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences ; to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your fellow-citizens in their highest concerns, and that you act as a reconciler between God and man ; to be employed...
Página 376 - Jesus Christ. Written in Cornish (as it may be conjectured) some Centuries past. Interpreted in the English tongue, in the Year 1682, by John Keigwin, Gent. Edited by Davies Gilbert.

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