The Quarterly Review, Volume 248William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1927 |
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... Europe ought to give him 100,000l . a year in order that he may show them how to spend their money . " This scene , the ducal atmosphere , the wit and extravagance of the statement , might have come straight from the pages of " Lothair ...
... Europe ought to give him 100,000l . a year in order that he may show them how to spend their money . " This scene , the ducal atmosphere , the wit and extravagance of the statement , might have come straight from the pages of " Lothair ...
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... European civilisation when there is an insistent demand for the intervention of the state in industrial and social affairs , and when half - articulate demands for freedom and justice are made by a partially educated democracy , it is ...
... European civilisation when there is an insistent demand for the intervention of the state in industrial and social affairs , and when half - articulate demands for freedom and justice are made by a partially educated democracy , it is ...
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... Europe with a network of legal restrictions and conceptions which still fetter thought and action . Perhaps it would be more fruitful of results , however , to discuss the historical THE STATE AND MODERN DEMOCRACY 23.
... Europe with a network of legal restrictions and conceptions which still fetter thought and action . Perhaps it would be more fruitful of results , however , to discuss the historical THE STATE AND MODERN DEMOCRACY 23.
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... European and American history supports the contention that the state is an organ of economic exploitation . If the state were the servant of the community , why should it always show a jealous fear of democracy ? The contentions of ...
... European and American history supports the contention that the state is an organ of economic exploitation . If the state were the servant of the community , why should it always show a jealous fear of democracy ? The contentions of ...
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... Europe , that the union with Scotland came about , and at the same time the ocean offered the islanders a pathway to every corner of the newly discovered globe . Commander Bowles takes us further in our quest . Without aspiring to the ...
... Europe , that the union with Scotland came about , and at the same time the ocean offered the islanders a pathway to every corner of the newly discovered globe . Commander Bowles takes us further in our quest . Without aspiring to the ...
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Page 262 - I scarcely had one night of quiet sleep Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny, and implements of death, And long orations which in dreams I pleaded Before unjust Tribunals, with a voice Labouring, a brain confounded, and a sense...
Page 196 - It begins by a recital, that all the parts of this realm of England and Wales be presently with rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars exceedingly pestered, by means whereof daily happeneth in the same realm horrible murders, thefts, and other great outrage, to the high displeasure of Almighty God, and to the great annoyance of the common weale.
Page 80 - Thou deep Base of the World, and thou high Throne Above the World, whoe'er thou art, unknown And hard of surmise, Chain of Things that be, Or Reason of our Reason ; God, to thee I lift my praise, seeing the silent road That bringeth justice ere the end be trod To all that breathes and dies.
Page 345 - I take possession of man's mind and deed. I care not what the sects may brawl. I sit as God holding no form of creed, But contemplating all.
Page 200 - The bane of all pauper legislation has been the legislating for extreme cases. Every exception, every violation of the general rule to meet a real case of unusual hardship, lets in a whole class of fraudulent cases, by which that rule must in time be destroyed. Where cases of real hardship occur, the remedy must be applied by individual charity, a virtue for which no system of compulsory relief can be or ought to be a substitute.
Page 349 - LORD, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon thy holy hill ? 2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart : 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbour...
Page 261 - A Residence in France, during the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 ; described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with general and incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners.
Page 162 - The extraterritoriality stipulation may have relieved the native official of some troublesome duties, but it has always been felt to be offensive and humiliating, and has ever a disintegrating effect, leading the people, on the one hand, to despise their own Government and officials, and, on the other, to envy and dislike the foreigner withdrawn from native control.
Page 378 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Page 249 - God, to the end that ye may obey the bishop and the presbytery without distraction of mind ; breaking one bread, which is the medicine of immortality and the antidote that we should not die but live for ever in Jesus Christ.