The Quarterly Review, Volume 217William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1912 - English literature |
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... Government to the competent , not to the many , ' is open to the objection that the two are neither necessarily nor always contraries . Mob - law and Labour tyranny are undoubtedly dangers against which society does well to guard . But ...
... Government to the competent , not to the many , ' is open to the objection that the two are neither necessarily nor always contraries . Mob - law and Labour tyranny are undoubtedly dangers against which society does well to guard . But ...
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... government and the capacity or incapacity of rulers ; and examples are not wanting in which the ship of state has been driven upon the rocks by the ignorance or rapacity of those at the helm . But , while factors such as these * 6 York ...
... government and the capacity or incapacity of rulers ; and examples are not wanting in which the ship of state has been driven upon the rocks by the ignorance or rapacity of those at the helm . But , while factors such as these * 6 York ...
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... government , nor pestilence , famine , or the sword , nothing indeed short of actual extermination , will prevent that development taking place when the condi- tions again become favourable . On the other hand , history shows that , if ...
... government , nor pestilence , famine , or the sword , nothing indeed short of actual extermination , will prevent that development taking place when the condi- tions again become favourable . On the other hand , history shows that , if ...
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... Government Board ( Cd 5865 ; Part 1 , p . 123 ) , shows the average number of indoor and outdoor paupers ( not including casuals and insane ) for each year during the last decade , together with the ratio per thousand of estimated ...
... Government Board ( Cd 5865 ; Part 1 , p . 123 ) , shows the average number of indoor and outdoor paupers ( not including casuals and insane ) for each year during the last decade , together with the ratio per thousand of estimated ...
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... Government Board have recently published an important blue - book entitled Public Health and Social Conditions , ' which describes very fully the great im- provements which have been effected in the surroundings of the people of England ...
... Government Board have recently published an important blue - book entitled Public Health and Social Conditions , ' which describes very fully the great im- provements which have been effected in the surroundings of the people of England ...
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Page 304 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 532 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 161 - The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant lights - a ship carrying the burden of millions of lives - a ship freighted with dross and with jewels, with gold and with steel. She towered up immense and strong, guarding priceless traditions and untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship! For ages had the ocean battered in vain her enduring sides; she was there when the...
Page 191 - ... advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented...
Page 559 - Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means which may be found 108 necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland.
Page 1 - For man's character has been moulded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been the religious and the economic.
Page 560 - Majesty's authority, with our best counsel, our bodies, means, and whole power, against all sorts of persons whatsoever; so that whatsoever shall be done to the least of us for that cause, shall be taken as done to us all in general, and to every one of us in particular.
Page 548 - We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 175 - Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
Page 397 - For Knowledge is the swallow on the lake That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there But never yet hath dipt into the abysm, The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth. And in the million-millionth of a grain Which cleft and cleft again for evermore, And ever vanishing, never vanishes. To me, my son, more mystic than myself, Or even than the Nameless is to me. And when thou sendest thy free soul thro' heaven, Nor understandest bound nor boundlessness, Thou...