The Twentieth Century, Volume 4Nineteenth Century and After, 1878 - English periodicals |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 5
... speak , under conditions which prescribed a continual struggle for existence , and which permitted only the strongest and fittest to survive and multiply . His conduct ' up to the moment or epoch when it became self - conscious was ...
... speak , under conditions which prescribed a continual struggle for existence , and which permitted only the strongest and fittest to survive and multiply . His conduct ' up to the moment or epoch when it became self - conscious was ...
Page 14
... speak more accurately , if we are willing to define utility as that which makes for the existence of anything , then just as utility or the needs of his own existence had suggested to man the idea of primitive rightness , so did it ...
... speak more accurately , if we are willing to define utility as that which makes for the existence of anything , then just as utility or the needs of his own existence had suggested to man the idea of primitive rightness , so did it ...
Page 38
... speak of him as a truthful man , whatever his faults may be , and however extravagant his views on political and social questions may appear to Englishmen ; when , therefore , he publicly denies that the before - named would - be ...
... speak of him as a truthful man , whatever his faults may be , and however extravagant his views on political and social questions may appear to Englishmen ; when , therefore , he publicly denies that the before - named would - be ...
Page 42
... speak from experience , having accompanied skirmishers , supports , and reserves in actual combat . Moreover , every ... speaking , a mile of country - to act together on any point where the enemy may be advancing in force or defend- ing ...
... speak from experience , having accompanied skirmishers , supports , and reserves in actual combat . Moreover , every ... speaking , a mile of country - to act together on any point where the enemy may be advancing in force or defend- ing ...
Page 63
... speak conceived of poetry only in crude streaks of local colour , ' and not in its truly artistic aspects . Poetry differs indeed from music in draw- ing its subjects from life , but that does not mean that all life is poetry , any more ...
... speak conceived of poetry only in crude streaks of local colour , ' and not in its truly artistic aspects . Poetry differs indeed from music in draw- ing its subjects from life , but that does not mean that all life is poetry , any more ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achilleid Ahmednuggur appear Armenian Asia Minor association become believe Bhaunagar British Burschenschaft called character Christian Church claim classes common Constitution cooperation Court Crown Cyprus Deccan Riots doctrine duty effect England English evolution existence fact favour feeling flowers force France German give Government Greek hand Hector honour House of Commons human idea India interest Judaism labour Lady Lilith land less Liberal Lord Lord Beaconsfield Lord Salisbury Malta Maltese Marwaris matter means ment mind Ministers moral native nature never object opinion organisation Parliament party passed persons political position present princes principle Professor question reason reforms regard religion religious Roman Russia ryot schools seems sense society speak Thenay theory things thought tion true truth Turkey Whigs whole words Zeus
Popular passages
Page 183 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 167 - Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave...
Page 132 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 12 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 451 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 537 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : Surely they are disquieted in vain : He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? My hope is in thee.
Page 131 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 105 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Page 136 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 807 - Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man ; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man.