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... middle classes . I have already shown how it is the natural disposition of an aristocratical class to view with jealousy the develop- ment of a considerable State - power . But this disposition has in England found extraordinary favour ...
... middle classes . I have already shown how it is the natural disposition of an aristocratical class to view with jealousy the develop- ment of a considerable State - power . But this disposition has in England found extraordinary favour ...
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... middle class ; and this aggrieved class had naturally no proneness to draw nice philosophical distinctions between State - action in these spheres , as a thing for abstract consideration , and State - action in them as they practically ...
... middle class ; and this aggrieved class had naturally no proneness to draw nice philosophical distinctions between State - action in these spheres , as a thing for abstract consideration , and State - action in them as they practically ...
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... middle classes , who had no such authority or grandeur to lose , but who , by a hasty reasoning , had theoretically ... class of its people , can really do much , by institution and regulation , to better that of the middle and lower ...
... middle classes , who had no such authority or grandeur to lose , but who , by a hasty reasoning , had theoretically ... class of its people , can really do much , by institution and regulation , to better that of the middle and lower ...
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... middle class of Frenchmen . This class , certainly , had not already the means of a better training for its children , before the State interfered . This class , certainly , would not have succeeded in procuring by its own efforts a ...
... middle class of Frenchmen . This class , certainly , had not already the means of a better training for its children , before the State interfered . This class , certainly , would not have succeeded in procuring by its own efforts a ...
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... classes below them . But the middle classes in Eng- land have every reason not to rest content with their private schools ; the State can do a great deal better for them . By giving to schools for these classes a public character , it ...
... classes below them . But the middle classes in Eng- land have every reason not to rest content with their private schools ; the State can do a great deal better for them . By giving to schools for these classes a public character , it ...
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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.
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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.
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