The Quarterly Review, Volume 229William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1918 |
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... Irish Nationalist members , not to speak of the Labour party . The filling of our great executive offices in strict obedience to parliamentary and partisan con- ventions , often to the great detriment of the public service , is likewise ...
... Irish Nationalist members , not to speak of the Labour party . The filling of our great executive offices in strict obedience to parliamentary and partisan con- ventions , often to the great detriment of the public service , is likewise ...
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... Irish character and the Anatolian character ; and this resemblance is in the kindliest and most human qualities of ... Irish race . Why the quick - witted Irish and the slow and sedate Turks should have the same kind of sense of the ...
... Irish character and the Anatolian character ; and this resemblance is in the kindliest and most human qualities of ... Irish race . Why the quick - witted Irish and the slow and sedate Turks should have the same kind of sense of the ...
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... Irish , but they certainly are both of the same type . Thus an Irishman picks up a sovereign one day , which turns out to be a light one , only worth 178.6d . , and he refuses to pick up another the next day , because , forsooth , he ...
... Irish , but they certainly are both of the same type . Thus an Irishman picks up a sovereign one day , which turns out to be a light one , only worth 178.6d . , and he refuses to pick up another the next day , because , forsooth , he ...
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... Irish question , our faults were party spirit and lack of great statesmen to control its various excesses , not any national harden- ing of the heart . When the great war fell upon us , we were an improvident but a generous people . But ...
... Irish question , our faults were party spirit and lack of great statesmen to control its various excesses , not any national harden- ing of the heart . When the great war fell upon us , we were an improvident but a generous people . But ...
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... Irish problem , not only in Ireland but wherever Irishmen were gathered and could make trouble for us . ' So , in the end , the two men parted , as other Englishmen parted afterwards at a time when broad and steady thought might have ...
... Irish problem , not only in Ireland but wherever Irishmen were gathered and could make trouble for us . ' So , in the end , the two men parted , as other Englishmen parted afterwards at a time when broad and steady thought might have ...
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Page 467 - 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 ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 123 - ... the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms ; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite...
Page 30 - Petronius tell us, created the gods of this religion. These deities are mysterious and capricious powers, who exact vengeance for the transgression of arbitrary laws which they have not revealed, and who must be propitiated by public sacrifice, lest some collective punishment fall on the tribe, blighting its crops and smiting its herds with murrain, or giving it over into the hand of its enemies. This religion makes very little attempt to correct the current standard of values. Its rewards are wealth...
Page 416 - But forasmuch as we are not by ourselves sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent store of things needful for such a life as our nature doth desire, a life fit for the dignity of man; therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us living single and solely by ourselves, we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. This was the cause of men's uniting themselves at the first in politic Societies...
Page 465 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Page 416 - ... as we are not by ourselves sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent store of things, needful for such a life -as our nature doth desire, a life fit for the dignity of man; therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us, as living single and solely by ourselves, we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others: this was the cause of men's uniting themselves at first in politic societies.
Page 220 - 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!
Page 131 - Find any piece of existence, take up anything that any one could possibly call a fact, or could in any sense assert to have being, and then judge if it does not consist in sentient experience. . Try to discover any sense in which you can still continue to speak of it, when all perception and feeling have been removed ; or point out any fragment of its matter, any aspect of its being, which is not derived from and is not still relative to this source. . When the experiment is made strictly, I can...
Page 109 - Heureux ceux qui sont morts pour la terre charnelle, Mais pourvu que ce fût dans une juste guerre. Heureux ceux qui sont morts pour quatre coins de terre. Heureux ceux qui sont morts d'une mort solennelle. Heureux ceux qui sont morts dans les grandes batailles, Couchés dessus le sol à la face de Dieu.
Page 124 - In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which inspires the insight of our best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces ; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow-men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.