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The one would only double his fortune , and the other would reduce his to nought
. What proportion is. * Subsequently increased to 70 stations over all parts of
Europe , held in correspondence with Brussels . ( Rapport addressé au Ministre
de ...
The one would only double his fortune , and the other would reduce his to nought
. What proportion is. * Subsequently increased to 70 stations over all parts of
Europe , held in correspondence with Brussels . ( Rapport addressé au Ministre
de ...
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It is otherwise under the increased facilities , excessive mobility , and excited
energy which prevail under the high temperature and pressure of modern
civilisation . Friction ( which has an equally real existence in both mechanisms )
is ...
It is otherwise under the increased facilities , excessive mobility , and excited
energy which prevail under the high temperature and pressure of modern
civilisation . Friction ( which has an equally real existence in both mechanisms )
is ...
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Thus we see the uniform march in the number of annual marriages ,
corresponding to an increasing population , visibly ... Thus , too , we see in
Bavaria , laws restraining marriage result in an increased number of illegitimate
births . Wherever ...
Thus we see the uniform march in the number of annual marriages ,
corresponding to an increasing population , visibly ... Thus , too , we see in
Bavaria , laws restraining marriage result in an increased number of illegitimate
births . Wherever ...
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tance of the employers from the employed ; it has increased the difficulty of rising
from the one class into the other . The first step for the agricultural labourer was to
the small renting farmer , and the next to the yeoman ; but , thanks to our ...
tance of the employers from the employed ; it has increased the difficulty of rising
from the one class into the other . The first step for the agricultural labourer was to
the small renting farmer , and the next to the yeoman ; but , thanks to our ...
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Page 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Page 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 595 - Conybeare and Howson.— The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul: Comprising a complete Biography of the Apostle, and a Translation of his Epistles inserted in Chronological Order. By the Rev. WJ CONYBEARE, MA, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and the Rev. JS HOWSON, MA, Principal of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool.
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Page 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Page 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Page 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.