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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... means to Elevation of Sentiment CHAPTER III . THE PHYSIQUE AND MORALE OF A GREAT CITY . Hive of Bees and Drop of Water - Varieties of Life → Curious Views of Great Cities in the Olden Time -Sites of Cities - Wordsworth - Cities and ...
... means to Elevation of Sentiment CHAPTER III . THE PHYSIQUE AND MORALE OF A GREAT CITY . Hive of Bees and Drop of Water - Varieties of Life → Curious Views of Great Cities in the Olden Time -Sites of Cities - Wordsworth - Cities and ...
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... mean by 99 66 these terms ? Is it true that as time revolves man enters into new cycles - that a series of years have in a sense the appearance of a life- time , marked by peculiar temperaments , habits , and events - that they manifest ...
... mean by 99 66 these terms ? Is it true that as time revolves man enters into new cycles - that a series of years have in a sense the appearance of a life- time , marked by peculiar temperaments , habits , and events - that they manifest ...
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... means of labour , and the warehouse with its vast and wonderful stores , the city and the capital . Industry has stood at the foundation of every state , but in Britain it has been the industry of necessity , not of luxury ; this ...
... means of labour , and the warehouse with its vast and wonderful stores , the city and the capital . Industry has stood at the foundation of every state , but in Britain it has been the industry of necessity , not of luxury ; this ...
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... mean by the His- tory of England ) , must read the voluminous and learned work of Sir F. M. Eden , to which this chapter must acknowledge itself indebted for many of its facts , and compare the interest- ing statements in the first ...
... mean by the His- tory of England ) , must read the voluminous and learned work of Sir F. M. Eden , to which this chapter must acknowledge itself indebted for many of its facts , and compare the interest- ing statements in the first ...
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... means a happy ideal of life or society ; let us hope we are on our way to order and to law ; storms work themselves to rest ; fermentation precedes de- position ; action hastens repose ; years may undoubtedly roll away before that ...
... means a happy ideal of life or society ; let us hope we are on our way to order and to law ; storms work themselves to rest ; fermentation precedes de- position ; action hastens repose ; years may undoubtedly roll away before that ...
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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.