Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 sider |
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Side 55
... interests now so near us , looming dominant in all the foreground of our day , will sometime be shifted and lose their place in the perspective . That has happened with the near objects and exaggerated interests of other days , so ...
... interests now so near us , looming dominant in all the foreground of our day , will sometime be shifted and lose their place in the perspective . That has happened with the near objects and exaggerated interests of other days , so ...
Side 72
... interests and temptations , to practice from hand to mouth , and at his peril , the most un- certain and at the same time the most indispensable of the experimental arts . " Mr. Colvin is himself of the class of men of let- ters and of ...
... interests and temptations , to practice from hand to mouth , and at his peril , the most un- certain and at the same time the most indispensable of the experimental arts . " Mr. Colvin is himself of the class of men of let- ters and of ...
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... interest with these dry materials such as made men stare who had often de- scribed the facts of society themselves , but who had never dreamed of applying fire to them , as Bagehot did , to make them give forth light and wholesome heat ...
... interest with these dry materials such as made men stare who had often de- scribed the facts of society themselves , but who had never dreamed of applying fire to them , as Bagehot did , to make them give forth light and wholesome heat ...
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... interest for justice . His nature tells in everything . It is stock of his character which he contributes to the subjects his mind handles . He is trading always with the original treasure he brought over 110 INTERPRETER OF ENGLISH LIBERTY ...
... interest for justice . His nature tells in everything . It is stock of his character which he contributes to the subjects his mind handles . He is trading always with the original treasure he brought over 110 INTERPRETER OF ENGLISH LIBERTY ...
Side 128
... interest that is dear to him . Noble generali- zations , it is true , everywhere broaden his matter : there is no more philosophical writer in English in the field of politics than Burke . But look , and you shall see that his ...
... interest that is dear to him . Noble generali- zations , it is true , everywhere broaden his matter : there is no more philosophical writer in English in the field of politics than Burke . But look , and you shall see that his ...
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Side 240 - 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 145 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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 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 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 151 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Side 106 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.