The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesPartridge and Oakley, 1852 - 456 Seiten |
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... labour , and to defend and apologise for the idea which has roused his enthusiasm . Such is fre- quently a great man . Great men , then , are the architects of an age , -those men who , like mountains , first catch the glimpses of the ...
... labour , and to defend and apologise for the idea which has roused his enthusiasm . Such is fre- quently a great man . Great men , then , are the architects of an age , -those men who , like mountains , first catch the glimpses of the ...
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... labour at once more congenial to his moral tastes , and less likely to be performed ; thus political action must be the work of lowest political estimation , since the political ques- tions of the day are the moral problems of other 10 ...
... labour at once more congenial to his moral tastes , and less likely to be performed ; thus political action must be the work of lowest political estimation , since the political ques- tions of the day are the moral problems of other 10 ...
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... labour , or the moral culture of the people . Meantime it is exceedingly difficult , if it be not impossible , to define an age . From time to time we have seen ponderous treatises on our age , ' our era . " What do we mean by 99 66 ...
... labour , or the moral culture of the people . Meantime it is exceedingly difficult , if it be not impossible , to define an age . From time to time we have seen ponderous treatises on our age , ' our era . " What do we mean by 99 66 ...
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... labour are a perpetual struggle with nature , yet that struggle in every age has led to con- quest and nobility ; from the first rude time , when man determining no longer to tear the ground himself for sustenance , constructed the * I ...
... labour are a perpetual struggle with nature , yet that struggle in every age has led to con- quest and nobility ; from the first rude time , when man determining no longer to tear the ground himself for sustenance , constructed the * I ...
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... labour first exhibited its mighty triumphs , freedom first moved to lighten over the darkened and enslaved people . The History of Britain in its noblest aspect , -in the only aspect really worthy of contempla- tion , for that includes ...
... labour first exhibited its mighty triumphs , freedom first moved to lighten over the darkened and enslaved people . The History of Britain in its noblest aspect , -in the only aspect really worthy of contempla- tion , for that includes ...
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Seite 401 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Seite 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Seite 262 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Seite 186 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Seite 403 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Seite 262 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Seite 267 - But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
Seite 213 - Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor: Or will you deem them amply paid in health, Labour's fair child, that languishes with Wealth?
Seite 401 - Th' eternal step of Progress beats To that great anthem, calm and slow, Which God repeats. Take heart! — the Waster builds again, — A charmed life old Goodness hath; The tares may perish, — but the grain Is not for death. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion from the night: Wake thou and watch! — the world is gray With morning light 1 THE PRISONER FOR DEBT LOOK on him!
Seite 60 - Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day; that labouring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread; that sanitary police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life; that numerous comforts and luxuries which are now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within the reach of every diligent and thrifty working man.