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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... Shakspere's Tempest -What are Utopias - The unproductive Dream Land - The practical Utopist The Utopian of Peace - Roger Bacon - Galileo Communism 431 CHAPTER I. THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE AGES . PROLOGUES OF viii CONTENTS .
... Shakspere's Tempest -What are Utopias - The unproductive Dream Land - The practical Utopist The Utopian of Peace - Roger Bacon - Galileo Communism 431 CHAPTER I. THE DEVELOPEMENT OF THE AGES . PROLOGUES OF viii CONTENTS .
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... land , or his snorting sea- horse over the deep ; or when seizing the light , he made it the ministrant to his dearest joys , striking by it the portrait of affection and love . What are the wires saying , placed along our lines of ...
... land , or his snorting sea- horse over the deep ; or when seizing the light , he made it the ministrant to his dearest joys , striking by it the portrait of affection and love . What are the wires saying , placed along our lines of ...
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... land had a pair of hands ; the sad fact of our day is , that there are now three mouths at the very least to one pair of hands ; a fact still more sad is , that there are those who are willing enough to ac- knowledge that they have a ...
... land had a pair of hands ; the sad fact of our day is , that there are now three mouths at the very least to one pair of hands ; a fact still more sad is , that there are those who are willing enough to ac- knowledge that they have a ...
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... land he would be amazed by its imposing display of wealth , he would not deny to us great refine- ment and civilization ; he would perhaps say , Have these people any misery ? Are there any poor ? Where are they ? Ah , there is indeed ...
... land he would be amazed by its imposing display of wealth , he would not deny to us great refine- ment and civilization ; he would perhaps say , Have these people any misery ? Are there any poor ? Where are they ? Ah , there is indeed ...
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... land is made of such graine as the soil yieldeth , nevertheless the gentilitie commonlie provide themselves sufficientlie with wheat for their owne tables , whilest their househeld and poore neighbours in some shires are enforced to ...
... land is made of such graine as the soil yieldeth , nevertheless the gentilitie commonlie provide themselves sufficientlie with wheat for their owne tables , whilest their househeld and poore neighbours in some shires are enforced to ...
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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.