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... matter can hardly fail to catch any clear- sighted man's attention . No one can deny that the Act seems likely to have a very large and far - reaching effect . But neither can it be denied , on the other hand , that leading Ministers ...
... matter can hardly fail to catch any clear- sighted man's attention . No one can deny that the Act seems likely to have a very large and far - reaching effect . But neither can it be denied , on the other hand , that leading Ministers ...
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... matter , when he complains of Parliament as being a place where it is ' the business of a Minister still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas , to confirm inveterate prejudices , to inflame vulgar passions , and to abet all ...
... matter , when he complains of Parliament as being a place where it is ' the business of a Minister still further to contract the narrowness of men's ideas , to confirm inveterate prejudices , to inflame vulgar passions , and to abet all ...
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... matter as it really stands ; we must cease to ignore , and to try to set aside , the nature of things ; ' by con- tending against which , what have we got , or shall ever get , but defeat and shame ? ' Pedantry and conventionality ...
... matter as it really stands ; we must cease to ignore , and to try to set aside , the nature of things ; ' by con- tending against which , what have we got , or shall ever get , but defeat and shame ? ' Pedantry and conventionality ...
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... matters , resolving to look things full in the face and let them stand for what they really are ; in order that they may ascertain whether there is any chance of comfort in store , or whether things are really as black and hopeless as ...
... matters , resolving to look things full in the face and let them stand for what they really are ; in order that they may ascertain whether there is any chance of comfort in store , or whether things are really as black and hopeless as ...
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... matter , that it is a ground of insecurity to us , and a cause of mortification and humiliation , that we have so completely failed to attach Ireland . I remember , when I was visiting - schools in Alsace twenty years ago , I noticed a ...
... matter , that it is a ground of insecurity to us , and a cause of mortification and humiliation , that we have so completely failed to attach Ireland . I remember , when I was visiting - schools in Alsace twenty years ago , I noticed a ...
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Page 195 - 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 9 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 197 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 198 - 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 55 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Page 288 - We can hardly at the present day understand what Menander meant, when he told a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action of it in his mind. A modern critic would have assured him that the merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along.
Page 291 - These other excellences were his fundamental excellences as a poet ; what distinguishes the artist from the mere amateur, says Goethe, is Architectonic^ in the highest sense ; that power of execution, which creates, forms, and constitutes : not the profoundness of single thoughts, not the richness of imagery, not the abundance of illustration.
Page 9 - I must say from all accounts, and my own observations, that the state of our fellow-countrymen in the parts I have named is worse than that of any people in the world, let alone Europe. I believe that these people are made as we are, that they are patient beyond belief, loyal, but at the same time broken-spirited and desperate, living on the verge of starvation in places where we would not keep our cattle.
Page 8 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 3 - I did not obey your instructions ! No, I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest against your opinions with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability.