Book I. The republic of lettersMacmillan, 1917 |
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... Mazzini and Victor Hugo imparted activity , elevation , and generous breadth of cosmopolitan outlook to the most ardent spirits of the new time in our own island . Humanity fought one of its most glorious battles across the Atlantic ...
... Mazzini and Victor Hugo imparted activity , elevation , and generous breadth of cosmopolitan outlook to the most ardent spirits of the new time in our own island . Humanity fought one of its most glorious battles across the Atlantic ...
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... Mazzini wrote to me in 1870 ( like Louis Blanc , in English as good as yours or mine ) " that he considered Comtism as a various reading , without the boldness of acknowledging it , of Materialism ; as a fragment of Science , but only a ...
... Mazzini wrote to me in 1870 ( like Louis Blanc , in English as good as yours or mine ) " that he considered Comtism as a various reading , without the boldness of acknowledging it , of Materialism ; as a fragment of Science , but only a ...
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... Mazzini . Italian exile was a source of influence hardly any less important to the growing generation whose minds were taking form and colour in the sixties . They were the two idols of Swinburne , and men less profuse in incense than ...
... Mazzini . Italian exile was a source of influence hardly any less important to the growing generation whose minds were taking form and colour in the sixties . They were the two idols of Swinburne , and men less profuse in incense than ...
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... Mazzini's ideals into effective results was brought about by agents , to whom all these austere moralities were just as much " nonsense " as Plato was to Bentham . Strange agents of liberty and progress were comprised - Napoleon III ...
... Mazzini's ideals into effective results was brought about by agents , to whom all these austere moralities were just as much " nonsense " as Plato was to Bentham . Strange agents of liberty and progress were comprised - Napoleon III ...
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... Mazzini as leader in the agitations of Italian resurrection , to three or four letters of that date written on the other shore of the Atlantic by Abraham Lincoln to im- patient Abolitionists . How happy for Mazzini if he could have ...
... Mazzini as leader in the agitations of Italian resurrection , to three or four letters of that date written on the other shore of the Atlantic by Abraham Lincoln to im- patient Abolitionists . How happy for Mazzini if he could have ...
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Էջ 258 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Էջ 110 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Էջ 275 - Of others' sight familiar were to hers. And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real!
Էջ 28 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Էջ 68 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Էջ 321 - The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes.
Էջ 18 - ... the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, " having no hope and without God in the world...
Էջ 110 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...
Էջ 99 - I might admit all this — and it would be not the less true that Rousseau's genius has sent that electric thrill through my intellectual and moral frame which has awakened me to new perceptions, which has made man and nature a fresh world of thought and feeling to me — and this not by teaching me any new belief.
Էջ 332 - ... unlimited submission. Speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred, and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.