Yes, the true system for governing the world, for fashioning the tender spirits of youth, for smoothing the pillow of age, is Love. Nothing else could have made a Cloudesley. Nothing else could have made a Julian. I and Lord Danvers have been the delinquents.... Cloudesley, by the author of 'Caleb Williams'. - Page 317by William Godwin - 1830Full view - About this book
| Costume - 1831 - 364 pages
...living temple ? No : the man that is austere to his brother mortal, is the true, the practical atheist. The true system for governing the world, for fashioning...spirits of youth, for smoothing the pillow of age, is Lore. The one thing which most exalts and illustrates man is disinterested affection. We are never... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1830 - 604 pages
...upon all. I have killed Cloudesley. I have almost killed thee, the dearest object of his affection. Yes, the true system for governing the world, for...Nothing else could have made a Julian. I and Lord Danvers have been the delinquents. He, for base and selfish ends — I, from an erroneous judgment.... | |
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