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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... evil ? Are they founded on a clear perception of the rights of man from man , the responsibilities of man to man ? These are things which make a commonwealth , when these are not there is none . We have all heard " the Condition of ...
... evil ? Are they founded on a clear perception of the rights of man from man , the responsibilities of man to man ? These are things which make a commonwealth , when these are not there is none . We have all heard " the Condition of ...
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... evil supposes that it has blown over ? Be- yond all doubt it is our duty to act the part of conservators of our social state ; we should lay our hand upon every means for the giving stability to the bulwarks of society , and in order ...
... evil supposes that it has blown over ? Be- yond all doubt it is our duty to act the part of conservators of our social state ; we should lay our hand upon every means for the giving stability to the bulwarks of society , and in order ...
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... evil , it is over ; that day has past , henceforth man is taught that he is to be a self - helper , and those who wish well to man will simply labour to remove from him all the trammellings preventing him from aiding himself . 66 One ...
... evil , it is over ; that day has past , henceforth man is taught that he is to be a self - helper , and those who wish well to man will simply labour to remove from him all the trammellings preventing him from aiding himself . 66 One ...
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... evil ; " and an opinion there is amongst us also , that our cities are not orna- ments to the nation , but great wens , unsightly and unnatural , and only to be regarded as necessary evils . In the reign of Queen Eliza- beth , a ...
... evil ; " and an opinion there is amongst us also , that our cities are not orna- ments to the nation , but great wens , unsightly and unnatural , and only to be regarded as necessary evils . In the reign of Queen Eliza- beth , a ...
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... evil to be deplored , is the absence of confidence between these two parties : the mas- ter will not trust the workman , the workman places no repose in the master , in most circles . Yet , we believe , the impression to a great de ...
... evil to be deplored , is the absence of confidence between these two parties : the mas- ter will not trust the workman , the workman places no repose in the master , in most circles . Yet , we believe , the impression to a great de ...
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Seite 429 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Seite 431 - 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 255 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Seite 292 - 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 179 - ... the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there 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 292 - 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 131 - Meanwhile . at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests,— spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Seite 215 - 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.
Seite 215 - Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his, that drooping weary sire; Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire; Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th
Seite 111 - ... me left me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint: Science moves) but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point : Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.