Personalities. Two Midlothian campaignsHarper & Brothers, 1891 |
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Seite 114 - Let it not be said that I am alone in my condemnation of this war, and of this incapable and guilty Administration. "And even if I were alone, if mine were a solitary voice, raised amid the din of arms and the clamours of a venal Press...
Seite 113 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Seite 294 - I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry ; that is, prose = words in their best order ; — poetry = the best words in the best order.
Seite 61 - Committee, to request you to accept this statue of Charles Darwin. We do not make this request for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory; for so long as men occupy themselves with the pursuit of truth, the name of Darwin runs no more risk of oblivion than does that of Copernicus, or that of Harvey.
Seite 167 - But then, I ask, what ransom will Property pay for the security which it enjoys ? What substitute will it find for the Natural Rights which have ceased to be...
Seite 166 - ... by fraud ; and some have been acquired by violence. Private ownership has taken the place of these communal rights, and this system has become so interwoven with our habits and usages, it has been so sanctioned by Law and protected by custom, that it might be very difficult and perhaps impossible to reverse it.
Seite 304 - But, however different the subject, although the interpretation of Scripture requires ' a vision and faculty divine/ or at least a moral and religious interest which is not needed in the study of a Greek poet or philosopher, yet in what may be termed the externals of interpretation, that is to say, the meaning of words, the connexion of sentences, the settlement of the text, the evidence of facts, the same rules apply to the Old and New Testaments as to other books.
Seite 303 - Almost all intelligent persons are agreed that the earth has existed for myriads of ages; the best informed are of opinion that the history of nations extends back some thousand years before the Mosaic chronology...
Seite 57 - None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate, than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragably established in science, inseparably incorporated with the common thoughts of men, and only hated and feared by those who would revile, but dare not.
Seite 410 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!