Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and OthersMacmillan, 1883 - 507 sider |
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Side ix
... conditions and property is a defeat to the instinct of expansion ; it depresses and degrades the inferior masses . The common people is and must be , as Tocqueville said , more uncivilised in aristocratic countries than in any others ...
... conditions and property is a defeat to the instinct of expansion ; it depresses and degrades the inferior masses . The common people is and must be , as Tocqueville said , more uncivilised in aristocratic countries than in any others ...
Side x
... conditions of civilisation , the claimants which man must satisfy before he can be humanised . : That the aim for all of us is to make civilisation pervasive and general ; that the requisites for civilisa- tion are substantially what ...
... conditions of civilisation , the claimants which man must satisfy before he can be humanised . : That the aim for all of us is to make civilisation pervasive and general ; that the requisites for civilisa- tion are substantially what ...
Side 2
... conditions of government having changed , the guiding maxims of government ought to change also . J'ai dit souvent , says Mirabeau , admonishing the Court of France in 1790 , qu'on devait changer de manière de gouverner , lorsque le ...
... conditions of government having changed , the guiding maxims of government ought to change also . J'ai dit souvent , says Mirabeau , admonishing the Court of France in 1790 , qu'on devait changer de manière de gouverner , lorsque le ...
Side 3
... condition . Aristocratical bodies have no taste for a very imposing executive , or for a very active and pene- trating domestic administration . They have a sense of equality among themselves , and of constituting in themselves what is ...
... condition . Aristocratical bodies have no taste for a very imposing executive , or for a very active and pene- trating domestic administration . They have a sense of equality among themselves , and of constituting in themselves what is ...
Side 4
... condition avails more with them than the instinct of their official function . To administer as little as possible , to make its weight felt in foreign affairs rather than in domestic , to see in ministerial station rather the means of ...
... condition avails more with them than the instinct of their official function . To administer as little as possible , to make its weight felt in foreign affairs rather than in domestic , to see in ministerial station rather the means of ...
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Side 19 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Side 57 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Side 203 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Side 423 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Side 48 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Side 158 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Side 421 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Side 315 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Side 203 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Side 423 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...