Thoughts of the times; or, Men and thingsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 255 էջ |
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... never become a science . With facts we are but imperfectly acquainted , with men still less , yet to determine with any degree of certainty what men will do from what men have done , we must know not only the facts and the men , but the ...
... never become a science . With facts we are but imperfectly acquainted , with men still less , yet to determine with any degree of certainty what men will do from what men have done , we must know not only the facts and the men , but the ...
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... never were great men so numerous and so powerful , never did genius shine with so much brilliance . Yet there was little tranquillity , much injustice , much national and private calamity . Neither did liberty , imperfect as it was , or ...
... never were great men so numerous and so powerful , never did genius shine with so much brilliance . Yet there was little tranquillity , much injustice , much national and private calamity . Neither did liberty , imperfect as it was , or ...
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... never was greater than at the present moment . There is little danger of national decay where governments let the people alone , and a free constitution gives them something to do . The Romans had no stimulus to exertion , it was in ...
... never was greater than at the present moment . There is little danger of national decay where governments let the people alone , and a free constitution gives them something to do . The Romans had no stimulus to exertion , it was in ...
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... never attempted what he did not accomplish . He possessed courage , both moral and physical ; he was acute and discriminating in his perception of character , and , in particular , of the character of his times ; and , what can be said ...
... never attempted what he did not accomplish . He possessed courage , both moral and physical ; he was acute and discriminating in his perception of character , and , in particular , of the character of his times ; and , what can be said ...
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... never perhaps unpopular : in the great object of his life , the preservation of the throne to the Protestant house of Hanover , he was completely successful ; and he gave no inconsiderable degree of attention , the more meritorious as ...
... never perhaps unpopular : in the great object of his life , the preservation of the throne to the Protestant house of Hanover , he was completely successful ; and he gave no inconsiderable degree of attention , the more meritorious as ...
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Էջ 171 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider...
Էջ 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Էջ 99 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Էջ 91 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Էջ 145 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Էջ 144 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Էջ 95 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Էջ 94 - Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Էջ 85 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Էջ 119 - I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation.