Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 sider |
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... midst of small talk , a tone of sweet harmony heard amidst a rattle of phrases . The mild noise was unobjectionable enough until the music came . There is a breath and stir of life in those sentences of Burke's which is to be perceived ...
... midst of small talk , a tone of sweet harmony heard amidst a rattle of phrases . The mild noise was unobjectionable enough until the music came . There is a breath and stir of life in those sentences of Burke's which is to be perceived ...
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... midst of his own small library of authorities , it has not seemed to him an impossible task to explore all the topics that engage his profession ; the guiding principles , at any rate , of all branches of the great subject were open to ...
... midst of his own small library of authorities , it has not seemed to him an impossible task to explore all the topics that engage his profession ; the guiding principles , at any rate , of all branches of the great subject were open to ...
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... midst of his early schooling by the coming on of the war ; and education given pause in such wise seldom begins again in the schools . He was left , therefore , to " finish " his mind as best he might in the companionship of the books ...
... midst of his early schooling by the coming on of the war ; and education given pause in such wise seldom begins again in the schools . He was left , therefore , to " finish " his mind as best he might in the companionship of the books ...
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... midst of affairs , and knew the dull duty and humdrum fidelity which make up the equipment of the ordinary mind for business , for the business which keeps the world steady in its grooves and makes it fit for habitation . He perceived ...
... midst of affairs , and knew the dull duty and humdrum fidelity which make up the equipment of the ordinary mind for business , for the business which keeps the world steady in its grooves and makes it fit for habitation . He perceived ...
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... midst of thought and also in the midst of affairs , if you would really comprehend those great wholes of history and of character which are the vital substance of politics . √ . THE INTERPRETER OF ENGLISH LIBERTY . IN the A LITERARY ...
... midst of thought and also in the midst of affairs , if you would really comprehend those great wholes of history and of character which are the vital substance of politics . √ . THE INTERPRETER OF ENGLISH LIBERTY . IN the A LITERARY ...
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Side 240 - He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Side 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Side 147 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Side 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Side 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Side 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Side 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Side 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Side 146 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness ; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Side 133 - Now we who know Mr. Burke, know, that he will be one of the first men in the country.