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... expected to say , " and you shall be at peace ; the secret of prosperity in common life is to be commonplace on principle . 66 Whatever truth there may be in these splenetic observations might be expected to show itself more ...
... expected to say , " and you shall be at peace ; the secret of prosperity in common life is to be commonplace on principle . 66 Whatever truth there may be in these splenetic observations might be expected to show itself more ...
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... expected to attend six or seven hours a day , while Parliament is sitting , for four or five days in the week , at least he is blamed if he is absent . " * - The necessary effect of all this labor is , that those subject to it have no ...
... expected to attend six or seven hours a day , while Parliament is sitting , for four or five days in the week , at least he is blamed if he is absent . " * - The necessary effect of all this labor is , that those subject to it have no ...
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... expected , at first ; but by steady perseverance the habit of attention grew powerful , and the sermon was repeated almost verbatim . When at a very distant day the senator , remem- bering accurately the speech of an opponent , answered ...
... expected , at first ; but by steady perseverance the habit of attention grew powerful , and the sermon was repeated almost verbatim . When at a very distant day the senator , remem- bering accurately the speech of an opponent , answered ...
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... expected to show how that learning could be rendered useless , hardly , indeed , to imagine a world in which it did not exist . The old creed that these ingenious abuses were the last " perfection of reason " * still lingered . It must ...
... expected to show how that learning could be rendered useless , hardly , indeed , to imagine a world in which it did not exist . The old creed that these ingenious abuses were the last " perfection of reason " * still lingered . It must ...
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... expected to speak very tem- perately ; he did not and could not admit that there was fair ground for difference of opinion ; that an equally patriotic person , after proper consideration , could by possibility arrive at an opposite ...
... expected to speak very tem- perately ; he did not and could not admit that there was fair ground for difference of opinion ; that an equally patriotic person , after proper consideration , could by possibility arrive at an opposite ...
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The Works of Walter Bagehot ... with Memoirs by R.H. Hutton: Now ..., Հատոր 3 Walter Bagehot Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1891 |
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Էջ 380 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
Էջ 278 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
Էջ 106 - ... or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm...
Էջ 40 - This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.
Էջ 105 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
Էջ 299 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the...
Էջ 278 - His reputation as a Professor was accordingly raised very high, and a multitude of students from a great distance resorted to the University, merely upon his account. Those branches of science which he taught became fashionable at this place, and his opinions were the chief topics of discussion in clubs and literary societies. Even the small peculiarities in his pronunciation or manner of speaking, became frequently the objects of imitation.
Էջ 202 - His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he most licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination has often been heated and exhausted with his body, in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night; and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic Bacchanals.
Էջ 174 - Once more thy beauty its full lustre wear ; Moved by his love, by his example taught, Soon shall thy soul, once more with virtue fraught, With kind and generous truth thy bosom warm, And thy fair mind, like thy fair person, charm. To virtue thus and to thyself restored, By all admired, by one alone adored, Be to thy Harry ever kind and true, And live for him who more than dies for you.
Էջ 302 - I shall be accused of going too far, when I say, that he was scarcely ever known to start a new topic himself, or to appear unprepared upon those topics that were introduced by others. Indeed, his conversation was never more amusing than when he gave a loose to his genius, upon the very few branches of knowledge of which he only possessed the outlines.