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... ideal life . " But then the ideal life is , in sober and practical truth , " none other than man's normal life , as we shall one day know it . " CONTENTS . PAGE I. DEMOCRACY 1 II . EQUALITY 36 X PREFACE .
... ideal life . " But then the ideal life is , in sober and practical truth , " none other than man's normal life , as we shall one day know it . " CONTENTS . PAGE I. DEMOCRACY 1 II . EQUALITY 36 X PREFACE .
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... ideal of grandeur , to the people ; thus they lay the foundations of a great nation . But they leave the people still the multitude , the crowd ; they have small belief in the power of the ideas which are its life . Themselves a power ...
... ideal of grandeur , to the people ; thus they lay the foundations of a great nation . But they leave the people still the multitude , the crowd ; they have small belief in the power of the ideas which are its life . Themselves a power ...
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... or anything like it . " The difficulty for democracy is , how to find and / keep high ideals . The individuals who compose it are , the bulk of them , persons who need to follow an ideal , not to set one ; and one 1. ] 19 DEMOCRACY .
... or anything like it . " The difficulty for democracy is , how to find and / keep high ideals . The individuals who compose it are , the bulk of them , persons who need to follow an ideal , not to set one ; and one 1. ] 19 DEMOCRACY .
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Irish Essays and Others Matthew Arnold. an ideal , not to set one ; and one ideal of greatness , high feeling , and fine culture , which an aristocracy once supplied to them , they lose by the very fact of ceasing to be a lower order and ...
Irish Essays and Others Matthew Arnold. an ideal , not to set one ; and one ideal of greatness , high feeling , and fine culture , which an aristocracy once supplied to them , they lose by the very fact of ceasing to be a lower order and ...
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... ideal of high reason and right feeling , representing its best self , commanding general respect , and forming a rallying- point for the intelligence and for the worthiest instincts of the community , which will herein find a true bond ...
... ideal of high reason and right feeling , representing its best self , commanding general respect , and forming a rallying- point for the intelligence and for the worthiest instincts of the community , which will herein find a true bond ...
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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...