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... institutions known in Britain . We are the first - born of Cain . We profit by the holy book he left behind him , covering with fig - leaf what we consider to be unessential or liable to misinterpretation . Our humanity teaches us to ...
... institutions known in Britain . We are the first - born of Cain . We profit by the holy book he left behind him , covering with fig - leaf what we consider to be unessential or liable to misinterpretation . Our humanity teaches us to ...
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... institution which has been deemed to be of so much importance . This is prudence and common - sense ; the rest is the exaggera- tion of fools , or the artifice of knaves , who eat up fools . What endless nonsense has been talked of our ...
... institution which has been deemed to be of so much importance . This is prudence and common - sense ; the rest is the exaggera- tion of fools , or the artifice of knaves , who eat up fools . What endless nonsense has been talked of our ...
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... institution appears like old ladies ' sweetmeats and made wines -Apricot Jam 1822 - Currant Wine 1819- Court of Chancery 1427 - Penal Laws against Catholics 1676. The difference is , that the ancient woman is a better judge of mouldy ...
... institution appears like old ladies ' sweetmeats and made wines -Apricot Jam 1822 - Currant Wine 1819- Court of Chancery 1427 - Penal Laws against Catholics 1676. The difference is , that the ancient woman is a better judge of mouldy ...
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... institutions . Madame De Staël ( to her disgrace ) said to the Emperor of Russia : " Sire , your character is a constitu- tion for your country , and your conscience its guaranty . " His reply was : " Quand cela serait , je ne serais ...
... institutions . Madame De Staël ( to her disgrace ) said to the Emperor of Russia : " Sire , your character is a constitu- tion for your country , and your conscience its guaranty . " His reply was : " Quand cela serait , je ne serais ...
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... institutions ought to be formed , and when it is applied to all men indis- criminately , it is injurious to none . The practical inference is to oppose to such possible ( and what will always be probable ) breaches of trust every bar ...
... institutions ought to be formed , and when it is applied to all men indis- criminately , it is injurious to none . The practical inference is to oppose to such possible ( and what will always be probable ) breaches of trust every bar ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Seite 48 - ... confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him — for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an enemy's country.
Seite 3 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Seite 210 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.
Seite 237 - The moment this view of culture is seized, the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are, to draw towards a knowledge of the universal order which seems to be intended and aimed at in the world, and which it is a man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to, — to learn, in short, the will of God...
Seite 175 - One was the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old.
Seite 90 - ... standing aloof as a sort of monster hired to play tricks of funambulism for the night. Yet again, if he contents himself with a musket like other people, then for...
Seite 202 - ... furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end.
Seite 262 - It was the great middle-class liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free-trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes ; in the religious sphere, the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 196 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light, in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the systole and diastole of the heart...