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... Political Economy . By John Stewart Mill , II . 1 Observations on the Necessity of adopting Legis- lative Measures to diminish the Recurrence of Fatal Accidents in Collieries , and to prolong the Duration of the Coal Mines of the ...
... Political Economy . By John Stewart Mill , II . 1 Observations on the Necessity of adopting Legis- lative Measures to diminish the Recurrence of Fatal Accidents in Collieries , and to prolong the Duration of the Coal Mines of the ...
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... Political Relation to Germany and the States of Europe . ) Berlin : 1849 . 3. An Heinrich Gagern ; eine Stimme aus dem Deut- schen Volke . ( To Henry Gagern ; a Voice from the German People . ) Stuttgard : 1849 . 4. Political Letters on ...
... Political Relation to Germany and the States of Europe . ) Berlin : 1849 . 3. An Heinrich Gagern ; eine Stimme aus dem Deut- schen Volke . ( To Henry Gagern ; a Voice from the German People . ) Stuttgard : 1849 . 4. Political Letters on ...
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... Political Economy . By JOHN STEWART MILL . THE progress recently made by Colonization , as a question of public interest , cannot have escaped the least attentive observer . That progress has been rapid as well as steady ; and may be ...
... Political Economy . By JOHN STEWART MILL . THE progress recently made by Colonization , as a question of public interest , cannot have escaped the least attentive observer . That progress has been rapid as well as steady ; and may be ...
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... political , like discoveries in the scientific world , are for the most part heralded by precursive signs ; and we have already had on the subject of Colonization those dawnlights which prog- nosticate the day . Nor can we at all wonder ...
... political , like discoveries in the scientific world , are for the most part heralded by precursive signs ; and we have already had on the subject of Colonization those dawnlights which prog- nosticate the day . Nor can we at all wonder ...
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... political changes , which are rendered abortive by the same discontent that produces them . ' Slowly comes a hungry people , as a lion , creeping nigher , Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire . ' When the ...
... political changes , which are rendered abortive by the same discontent that produces them . ' Slowly comes a hungry people , as a lion , creeping nigher , Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying fire . ' When the ...
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Page 532 - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
Page 366 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 366 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 7 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 422 - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
Page 588 - Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son : This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
Page 334 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 370 - But when wit is combined with sense and information, when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by strong principle, when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit, wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.
Page 167 - ... of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation.
Page 370 - I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.