| Matthew Arnold - 1911 - 458 Seiten
...known, from the example of the poet Lucretius and others, what great masters of style the atheistic doctrine has always counted among its promulgators....have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there were only the Barbarians and the Philistines to do what they liked, but to be getting... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1913 - 376 Seiten
...Anglo-Saxon race, the best breed in the whole world ! I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last! I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? " And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by insisting that the old Anglo-Saxon race would... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 502 Seiten
...seen them will remember ; — the gloom, the smoke, 40 the cold, the strangled illegitimate child ! ' I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? ' Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer ; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 Seiten
...able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Now obviously there is a peril for poor human nature in 1 A well-known politician (died 1905). <>.... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 Seiten
...have seen them will remember; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much to be... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 Seiten
...able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing." for quite stopping the mouths of all gainsayers. Mr. Roebuck is never weary of reiterating this argument... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1924 - 474 Seiten
...happiness, on which I have so often commented : " I look around me and ask what is the state of England 1 Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask...over, or in past history, there is anything like it t Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 260 Seiten
...Mapperly hills and the egregious Mr. Roebuck asked, if, the world over or in past history, there was anything like it. "Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." We all recognise it now, and the wicked folly of it — or at least I hope we do. My purpose to-day,... | |
| Hugh Kingsmill - 1928 - 358 Seiten
...Robuck says to the Sheffield cutlers: 'I look around me and ask what is the state of England? . . . I ask you whether, the world over or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.' "Now obviously," Arnold comments, "there is a peril for poor human nature in words and thoughts of... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1962 - 598 Seiten
...have seen them will remember; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is [not) very much... | |
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