 If a spirit of rapacious covetousness, desecrating all the humanities of life, has been the besetting sin of England for the last century and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to...  The Quarterly Review - Page 88edited by - 1928Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 496 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. Are we then to conclude, that the only effect of the Reform Act has been to create in this country... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1845 - 996 pages
...other by virtue of philosophic phrases, to propose an Utopia to consist only of WEALTH and TOIL, thia has been the breathless business of enfranchised England...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. Are we then to conclude, that the only effect of the Reform Act has been to create in this country... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 454 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate , to plunder each other by virtue of philosophic phrases, to propose an Utopia to consist only of WEALTH and TOIL , this has been the breathless business of enfranchised... | |
 | 1845 - 608 pages
...mitigated by the passing of the Reform Act. We will not go the length of saying, with Mr. D'lsraeli, ' that we are startled from our voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage,' but we very much fear, that to acquire and 'to accumulate has been too much of late the heartless business... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 628 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. Are we then to conclude, that the only effect of the Reform Act has been to create in this country... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. Reform Act hag been to create in this country another of those class interests which we now so loudly... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 516 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. Are we then to conclude, that the only effect of the Reform Act has been to create in this country... | |
 | Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 418 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other,...only of wealth and toil: this has been the breathless businessof enfranchised England for the last twenty or thirty years, until we are startled from our... | |
 | William Lee Rees - 1888 - 504 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Eeform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...voracious strife by the wail of intolerable serfage. "f " But time, that brings all things, has brought to the mind of England some suspicion that the idols... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1890 - 290 pages
...and a half, since the passing of the Reform Act the altar of Mammon has blazed with a triple worship. To acquire, to accumulate, to plunder each other by...consist only of Wealth and Toil — this has been the business of enfranchised England for the last twelve years, until we are startled from our voracious... | |
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