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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... suppose that there is behind all the forms of the ages a wise master - builder , that all men are so many minor builders and erectors of scaffolding for the great purposes contemplated by the primal Architect . Ages are the framework or ...
... suppose that there is behind all the forms of the ages a wise master - builder , that all men are so many minor builders and erectors of scaffolding for the great purposes contemplated by the primal Architect . Ages are the framework or ...
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... Suppose the founda- tions of our earth were the wedges of gold instead of the wedges of iron , alas , for us ! vain that they would form a coronet - vain , that they would hang in the ears of proud beauties -vain , that they would ...
... Suppose the founda- tions of our earth were the wedges of gold instead of the wedges of iron , alas , for us ! vain that they would form a coronet - vain , that they would hang in the ears of proud beauties -vain , that they would ...
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... suppose a pre - ordaining power and skill had defined her headlands and her cliffs had scooped her harbours and bays -had wonderfully , in so small a space , compre- hended the most difficult and yet the most generous soils , the most ...
... suppose a pre - ordaining power and skill had defined her headlands and her cliffs had scooped her harbours and bays -had wonderfully , in so small a space , compre- hended the most difficult and yet the most generous soils , the most ...
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... suppose there are some feelings of patriotism and love for fatherland , or brotherhood and love of humanity , releasing the spirit from the bondage of prejudices and conventional usages . What do you find ? Is it a happy social state in ...
... suppose there are some feelings of patriotism and love for fatherland , or brotherhood and love of humanity , releasing the spirit from the bondage of prejudices and conventional usages . What do you find ? Is it a happy social state in ...
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... suppose an entire absence of dignity or enjoyment among them ; frequently , especially in the country , it is their boast that they have lived so long in the service of one employer . By large prudence many too in the city have ...
... suppose an entire absence of dignity or enjoyment among them ; frequently , especially in the country , it is their boast that they have lived so long in the service of one employer . By large prudence many too in the city have ...
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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.