Fallacies and Tendencies of the AgeLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871 - 251 pages |
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Page iii
... desire to know how I have found time for writing , my answer is , by the employment of hours which far too many men spend in doing nothing at all , or something worse . In the words of Cicero I ask , " Who can justly blame , who can ...
... desire to know how I have found time for writing , my answer is , by the employment of hours which far too many men spend in doing nothing at all , or something worse . In the words of Cicero I ask , " Who can justly blame , who can ...
Page ix
... Desire of English to see foreign countries before having seen their own -- Interview with a Scotch keeper - Habits of Englishmen in the Highlands , and their object in going there- Fashionable sportsmen - Keepers- Guests at sporting ...
... Desire of English to see foreign countries before having seen their own -- Interview with a Scotch keeper - Habits of Englishmen in the Highlands , and their object in going there- Fashionable sportsmen - Keepers- Guests at sporting ...
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... desire to consider the effect to be produced by obtain- ing the object in view . Believing that the carrying out of the views expounded by certain theorists and agitators as regards Protection to Native In- dustry , and the various ...
... desire to consider the effect to be produced by obtain- ing the object in view . Believing that the carrying out of the views expounded by certain theorists and agitators as regards Protection to Native In- dustry , and the various ...
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... desire for discussion respecting the necessity for a change . The free importation of manufac- tured goods , and especially of articles of luxury under the existing system of what many persons designate " a one - sided system of Free ...
... desire for discussion respecting the necessity for a change . The free importation of manufac- tured goods , and especially of articles of luxury under the existing system of what many persons designate " a one - sided system of Free ...
Page 10
... by our present Govern- ment , and an inordinate desire for change , have led them to wander into regions , where there is an uncertainty of benefit being realized . The tendency of the present Government has , I fear 10.
... by our present Govern- ment , and an inordinate desire for change , have led them to wander into regions , where there is an uncertainty of benefit being realized . The tendency of the present Government has , I fear 10.
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Page 98 - Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Page 124 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Page 76 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 41 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 55 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain...
Page 26 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 199 - Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, and the Bill of Rights.
Page vi - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 41 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 69 - ... and important. They are the guardians of the English constitution ; the makers, repealers, and interpreters of the English laws ; delegated to watch, to check, and to avert every dangerous innovation, to propose, to adopt, and to cherish any solid and...