The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesCharles Gilpin, 1850 - 439 Seiten |
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... round their own selfishness ; the most eminent instances of heathen virtue tend rather to shock our minds by revealing the rarity of moral action , than to charm us as the exhibitions of individual goodness . The very worst passages of ...
... round their own selfishness ; the most eminent instances of heathen virtue tend rather to shock our minds by revealing the rarity of moral action , than to charm us as the exhibitions of individual goodness . The very worst passages of ...
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... round by almost all persons . On the most moderate computation it may be affirmed , that the consumption of butcher's meat in the metropolis , as compared with the population , is twice as great at this moment as in 1740 or 1750 , and ...
... round by almost all persons . On the most moderate computation it may be affirmed , that the consumption of butcher's meat in the metropolis , as compared with the population , is twice as great at this moment as in 1740 or 1750 , and ...
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... round the very landmarks of ages , threatening to sweep them away ; stars start from their courses , and even atoms learn to rebel against a supposed universally binding law . And thus , if THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 75.
... round the very landmarks of ages , threatening to sweep them away ; stars start from their courses , and even atoms learn to rebel against a supposed universally binding law . And thus , if THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 75.
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... rounds and they will be lowest to - morrow . Our social philosophy has many a curious and un- solved problem ; but the most curious , perhaps the most unsolvable , is the beggar - the mendicant life of England . The preceding statements ...
... rounds and they will be lowest to - morrow . Our social philosophy has many a curious and un- solved problem ; but the most curious , perhaps the most unsolvable , is the beggar - the mendicant life of England . The preceding statements ...
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... round him many comforts of which he is deprived now ; the jostling competetive spirit of society has elbowed him out of the way . He was obliged to leave the home of his early happiness , but he has not left behind him memory and a ...
... round him many comforts of which he is deprived now ; the jostling competetive spirit of society has elbowed him out of the way . He was obliged to leave the home of his early happiness , but he has not left behind him memory and a ...
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Seite 407 - 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 405 - 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 408 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Seite 237 - 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 273 - 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 250 - At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Seite 172 - 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 117 - 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 198 - Labour's fair child, that languishes with wealth ? Go, then ! and see them rising with the sun, Through a long course of daily toil to run ; See them beneath the dog-star's raging heat, When the knees tremble and the temples beat ; Behold them, leaning on their scythes, look o'er The labour past, and toils to come explore ; See them alternate suns and showers engage, And hoard up aches and anguish for their age...
Seite 52 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...