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... Evil Signs in England Permanent Seats in Parliament for Tried Men Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh Grounds of Hope Masses into which English Society is divided Character of English Journals Defects of the Journals CHAP . IV . - RECONCILIATION ...
... Evil Signs in England Permanent Seats in Parliament for Tried Men Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh Grounds of Hope Masses into which English Society is divided Character of English Journals Defects of the Journals CHAP . IV . - RECONCILIATION ...
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... evil omen , because , so far as it goes , it exhibits the overbearing tyranny of demo- cratic passions , in the very class amongst whom they should be most restrained . The admixture of re- ligious excitement does not diminish , but ...
... evil omen , because , so far as it goes , it exhibits the overbearing tyranny of demo- cratic passions , in the very class amongst whom they should be most restrained . The admixture of re- ligious excitement does not diminish , but ...
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... Bills due are promptly paid , high balances are left in hand , and the banker sees no sign of evil in the commercial horizon . Hope lives upon a little , and when danger is out of sight , the step is short MONEY . 23.
... Bills due are promptly paid , high balances are left in hand , and the banker sees no sign of evil in the commercial horizon . Hope lives upon a little , and when danger is out of sight , the step is short MONEY . 23.
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... evil of the war expenditure was the im- mense transfer of property , which was in this way brought about . The food and clothing consumed by soldiers and sea- men , the ships ' stores and ammunition wasted , the manufac- tured goods and ...
... evil of the war expenditure was the im- mense transfer of property , which was in this way brought about . The food and clothing consumed by soldiers and sea- men , the ships ' stores and ammunition wasted , the manufac- tured goods and ...
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... evil which is thought by some high authorities to have been inflicted on the country banks by the Act of 1844. The whole of the reasoning in this work goes to show that the fundamental principle of that mea- sure was erroneous ; but the ...
... evil which is thought by some high authorities to have been inflicted on the country banks by the Act of 1844. The whole of the reasoning in this work goes to show that the fundamental principle of that mea- sure was erroneous ; but the ...
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Page 264 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 286 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 137 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Page 138 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Page 101 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 182 - Meanwhile, at social Industry's command. How quick, how vast an increase ! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues...
Page 216 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 204 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 64 - Ho, no, no, no, no ; — my meaning, in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me, that he is sufficient...
Page 286 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.