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... Lord Chesterfield's Letters ( edit . of 1845 ) , vol . i . pp . 115 , 143 ; vol . ii . p . 54 ; and then say , whether the culture there indicated as the culture of a class has maintained itself at that level , in this falling off of ...
... Lord Chesterfield's Letters ( edit . of 1845 ) , vol . i . pp . 115 , 143 ; vol . ii . p . 54 ; and then say , whether the culture there indicated as the culture of a class has maintained itself at that level , in this falling off of ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield held it up to reprobation in a speech to the students at Glasgow ; -a speech so interesting , that being asked soon afterwards to hold a discourse at Glasgow , I said that if one spoke there at all at that time it ...
... Lord Beaconsfield held it up to reprobation in a speech to the students at Glasgow ; -a speech so interesting , that being asked soon afterwards to hold a discourse at Glasgow , I said that if one spoke there at all at that time it ...
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... lord over a man who is not . The love of freedom itself is hardly stronger in England than the love of aristocracy . " Mr. Gladstone goes on to quote a saying of Sir William Molesworth , that with our people the love of aristocracy " is ...
... lord over a man who is not . The love of freedom itself is hardly stronger in England than the love of aristocracy . " Mr. Gladstone goes on to quote a saying of Sir William Molesworth , that with our people the love of aristocracy " is ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield may not have turned your minds to this subject as he turned mine , and what Menander or George Sand happens to have said may not interest you much ; yet surely , when you think of it , when you see what a practical ...
... Lord Beaconsfield may not have turned your minds to this subject as he turned mine , and what Menander or George Sand happens to have said may not interest you much ; yet surely , when you think of it , when you see what a practical ...
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... are incapable of sending Mr. Gladstone to be tried at the Old Bailey because he proclaims his antipathy to Lord Beaconsfield . A majority in our House of Commons is incapable of hailing , with frantic 11. ] 59 EQUALITY .
... are incapable of sending Mr. Gladstone to be tried at the Old Bailey because he proclaims his antipathy to Lord Beaconsfield . A majority in our House of Commons is incapable of hailing , with frantic 11. ] 59 EQUALITY .
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Page 19 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 57 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 203 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 423 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 48 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 158 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 421 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 315 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Page 203 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Page 423 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...