England: Her People, Polity, and PursuitsH. Holt, 1880 - 625 pages |
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... never be felt . If , in the interval that has elapsed since 1835 , free play has been given in many respects to the principle of local independence , a certain later tendency towards its abridgment cannot be ignored . The great ...
... never be felt . If , in the interval that has elapsed since 1835 , free play has been given in many respects to the principle of local independence , a certain later tendency towards its abridgment cannot be ignored . The great ...
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... of foreign empire than a vague boast that the sun never sets upon the British flag ; if , instead of a personal devotion to fatherland , the old - fashioned belief that England , and England alone , was abundantly 4 ENGLAND .
... of foreign empire than a vague boast that the sun never sets upon the British flag ; if , instead of a personal devotion to fatherland , the old - fashioned belief that England , and England alone , was abundantly 4 ENGLAND .
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... never been guilty of the indiscriminate bounty which is the parent of pauperism . He has been fortunate in secur- ing as his bailiff and agent a respectable gentleman , who has no social ambition of an aggressive character , and no wish ...
... never been guilty of the indiscriminate bounty which is the parent of pauperism . He has been fortunate in secur- ing as his bailiff and agent a respectable gentleman , who has no social ambition of an aggressive character , and no wish ...
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... never to fail , and as a source of charity which is never to run dry . Of the ten or fifteen thousand beneficed clergymen of the Church of Eng- land , it is the exception to find one who does not , to the best of his ability and means ...
... never to fail , and as a source of charity which is never to run dry . Of the ten or fifteen thousand beneficed clergymen of the Church of Eng- land , it is the exception to find one who does not , to the best of his ability and means ...
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... never takes the edge off class quarrels , that he does not act and cannot act , by his influence with the employer , as an advanced guard of the interests of the em- ployed . From this point of view , the parson represents in matters ...
... never takes the edge off class quarrels , that he does not act and cannot act , by his influence with the employer , as an advanced guard of the interests of the em- ployed . From this point of view , the parson represents in matters ...
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Popular passages
Page 525 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 590 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities: one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power; the other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character, in which as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Page 353 - she could dismiss all the sailors too; she could sell off ' all our ships of war and all our naval stores; she could ' make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall, and begin ' a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make ' every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, ' a peer; she could make every parish in the United ' Kingdom a "university;" she could dismiss most of ' the civil servants; she could pardon all offenders.
Page 497 - By continually seeking to know and being continually thrown back with a deepened conviction of the impossibility of knowing, we may keep alive the consciousness that it is alike our highest wisdom and our highest duty to regard that through which all things exist as The Unknowable.
Page 429 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Page 354 - Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions.
Page 163 - But whilst these outrages must be admitted to exist to an alarming extent, it cannot be denied that they have arisen from circumstances of the most unparalleled distress. The perseverance of these miserable men in their proceedings, tends to prove that nothing but absolute want could have driven a large, and once honest and industrious, body of the people, into the commission iv. , 33 of excesses so hazardous to themselves, their families, and the community.
Page 509 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone.
Page 496 - Round the physical feeling forming the nucleus of the whole, are gathered the feelings produced by personal beauty, that constituting simple attachment, those of reverence, of love of approbation, of self-esteem, of property, of love of freedom, of sympathy. These, all greatly exalted, and severally tending to reflect their excitements on one another, unite to form the mental state we call love."* Hence emotional, moral, and intellectual qualities may, by evoking affection, approbation, or admiration,...
Page 429 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the church and of the ministers thereof shall be retained and be in use as was in this Church of England by authority of parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth until other order shall be therein taken by the authority of the queen's majesty, with the advice of her commissioners appointed and authorized under the great seal of England for causes ecclesiastical or of the metropolitan of this realm.