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... represented . The truest development of public character may be looked for where there is a happy mixture of local and national feeling . The one is as necessary to quicken individual sympathies as the other is to broaden patriotic ...
... represented . The truest development of public character may be looked for where there is a happy mixture of local and national feeling . The one is as necessary to quicken individual sympathies as the other is to broaden patriotic ...
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... represented , it shall not be over- represented , a result which would obviously be unjust to the majority . It has to be shown that the system would not introduce into the representation greater evils than that which it is intended to ...
... represented , it shall not be over- represented , a result which would obviously be unjust to the majority . It has to be shown that the system would not introduce into the representation greater evils than that which it is intended to ...
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... representa- tion can no longer be put off with the assurance that he is represented conjointly with other classes . He feels that the best representative of working men is a working man , and the 22 Jan. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... representa- tion can no longer be put off with the assurance that he is represented conjointly with other classes . He feels that the best representative of working men is a working man , and the 22 Jan. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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... represented in Parliament , if it exists outside in sufficient strength to entitle it to the measure of representation it enjoys . And if there be one set of opinions which it is more desirable in the public interest to have represented ...
... represented in Parliament , if it exists outside in sufficient strength to entitle it to the measure of representation it enjoys . And if there be one set of opinions which it is more desirable in the public interest to have represented ...
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... as fame . He left behind him estates in Berks and Wilts , the freehold premises in Printing House Square , and the interest in The Times , which represented as valuable a property as many 1885 57 THE CENTENARY OF The Times .
... as fame . He left behind him estates in Berks and Wilts , the freehold premises in Printing House Square , and the interest in The Times , which represented as valuable a property as many 1885 57 THE CENTENARY OF The Times .
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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.