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... figures ; I mean real figures , not figures of speech ; and try to realise his seriously hesitating at a pons asinorum ! Unfortunately for the cause of proportional represen- tation , the humorous epithets of its adversaries have not ...
... figures ; I mean real figures , not figures of speech ; and try to realise his seriously hesitating at a pons asinorum ! Unfortunately for the cause of proportional represen- tation , the humorous epithets of its adversaries have not ...
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... figures the candidates of his choice , and the degree of support he desired to give to each . There can be no doubt , in my judgment , that such a system is workable , but whether its results would be satisfactory can only be determined ...
... figures the candidates of his choice , and the degree of support he desired to give to each . There can be no doubt , in my judgment , that such a system is workable , but whether its results would be satisfactory can only be determined ...
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... figures most obnoxious and con- temptible to that very sorry pair of phenomena , Thomas Cloacinus and his Goody . This was a sham strong man , ' said Carlyle - very justly - of Byron and equal justice echoes back the verdict as retorted ...
... figures most obnoxious and con- temptible to that very sorry pair of phenomena , Thomas Cloacinus and his Goody . This was a sham strong man , ' said Carlyle - very justly - of Byron and equal justice echoes back the verdict as retorted ...
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... figures are not readily obtainable ; but from information which I have been able to gather , it may be taken as a fair approximation that between 300,000 and 400,000 persons are to be 92 Jan. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... figures are not readily obtainable ; but from information which I have been able to gather , it may be taken as a fair approximation that between 300,000 and 400,000 persons are to be 92 Jan. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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... figure in absurd positions . All of them , however , are apparently going at a tremendous pace , racing with railway trains , and so on . But the date of these caricatures was probably a few years later , when the dandy - horse , which ...
... figure in absurd positions . All of them , however , are apparently going at a tremendous pace , racing with railway trains , and so on . But the date of these caricatures was probably a few years later , when the dandy - horse , which ...
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Page 343 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 85 - But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea's worth.
Page 84 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 802 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 235 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 706 - MARTINE. Tout ce que vous prêchez est, je crois, bel et bon ; Mais je ne saurais, moi, parler votre jargon.
Page 74 - Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast.
Page 802 - Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkerchief about your brows (The best I had, a princess wrought it me), And I did never ask it you again : And with my hand at midnight held your head ; And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time; Saying, What lack you? and, Where lies your grief?
Page 73 - Poesy! thou sweet'st content That e'er heaven to mortals lent: Though they as a trifle leave thee, Whose dull thoughts cannot conceive thee, Though thou be to them a scorn, That to nought but earth are born, Let my life no longer be Than I am in love with thee, Though our wise ones call thee madness, Let me never taste of gladness, If I love not thy mad'st fits More than all their greatest wits.
Page 487 - My function is that of the aesthetic, not the doctrinal teacher — the rousing of the nobler emotions, which make mankind desire the social right, not the prescribing of special measures, concerning which the artistic mind, however strongly moved by social sympathy, is often not the best judge.