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Side 15
... study and school of the statesman . With history properly understood , politics have the most intimate inseparable connection . Look , for instance , at the process of legislation . ever . When a new law is to be made , let 15.
... study and school of the statesman . With history properly understood , politics have the most intimate inseparable connection . Look , for instance , at the process of legislation . ever . When a new law is to be made , let 15.
Side 19
... Look on this picture and on that ! Or if you have a better historian than Alison , he is not deeper , but only brighter and livelier , some journalist or feuilletoniste , some writer of poetic prose . And when you have got your writer ...
... Look on this picture and on that ! Or if you have a better historian than Alison , he is not deeper , but only brighter and livelier , some journalist or feuilletoniste , some writer of poetic prose . And when you have got your writer ...
Side 48
... looks back upon his past life seldom dwells upon the times of low motive or of disgrace : rather , if such have occurred to him , he rests upon the memory of days when ideals were high , and when strife , if not successful , was at ...
... looks back upon his past life seldom dwells upon the times of low motive or of disgrace : rather , if such have occurred to him , he rests upon the memory of days when ideals were high , and when strife , if not successful , was at ...
Side 51
... look upon the reign it appears to be a scene of bewildering confusion . We see everything in motion , but can discern no fixed law . England appears to be , as in truth she was , groping in the dark for constitutional government , for ...
... look upon the reign it appears to be a scene of bewildering confusion . We see everything in motion , but can discern no fixed law . England appears to be , as in truth she was , groping in the dark for constitutional government , for ...
Side 54
... look upon the reign of Charles II . as altogether a national failure . II . We have named three of what we called the instinctive maxims of Englishmen - No Pope , No Army Rule , No Despot , as serving to guide us through the tangles of ...
... look upon the reign of Charles II . as altogether a national failure . II . We have named three of what we called the instinctive maxims of Englishmen - No Pope , No Army Rule , No Despot , as serving to guide us through the tangles of ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 68 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 73 - 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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Side 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 75 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Side 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Side 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Side 65 - While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched...
Side 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.