A Century of RevolutionChapman and Hall, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... George Trevelyan is stated to have declared upon one occasion that a householder who has not a vote has no more freedom than a negro slave . The utterance is said to have been received with loud cheers . Sir George Trevelyan is , at all ...
... George Trevelyan is stated to have declared upon one occasion that a householder who has not a vote has no more freedom than a negro slave . The utterance is said to have been received with loud cheers . Sir George Trevelyan is , at all ...
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... George III . won all hearts by living like a farmer . Instead of the fierce light beating about a throne , it played lambently upon a stye . † And the nation who admired , imitated . When the Regent came , and with him that coarse ...
... George III . won all hearts by living like a farmer . Instead of the fierce light beating about a throne , it played lambently upon a stye . † And the nation who admired , imitated . When the Regent came , and with him that coarse ...
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... George Sand . On the other hand , Stendhal and Balzac , Gustave Flaubert and himself , he regards as the literary successors of Diderot . This is in substance M. Zola's apology for him- self and his school . And it must be admitted that ...
... George Sand . On the other hand , Stendhal and Balzac , Gustave Flaubert and himself , he regards as the literary successors of Diderot . This is in substance M. Zola's apology for him- self and his school . And it must be admitted that ...
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... George Eliot or George Sand is the storyteller , we are all listeners , the wise and learned , as well as the ignorant and foolish . But the writer of romantic fiction is especially the minister of the ideal to the multitude , who , as ...
... George Eliot or George Sand is the storyteller , we are all listeners , the wise and learned , as well as the ignorant and foolish . But the writer of romantic fiction is especially the minister of the ideal to the multitude , who , as ...
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... George Eliot , " most of all by that reverence for the highest efforts of our common nature , which commands us to bury its lowest fatalities , its in- vincible remnants of the brute , its most agonising struggles with temptation , in ...
... George Eliot , " most of all by that reverence for the highest efforts of our common nature , which commands us to bury its lowest fatalities , its in- vincible remnants of the brute , its most agonising struggles with temptation , in ...
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Seite 42 - When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.
Seite 201 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Seite 106 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Seite 107 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Seite 179 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 234 - BAYARD' : ° HISTORY OF THE GOOD CHEVALIER, SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE. Compiled by the LOYAL SERVITEUR; translated into English from the French of Loredan Larchey. With over aoo...
Seite 124 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
Seite 195 - ... a social support, a point d'appui, for individual resistance to the tendencies of the ruling power ; a protection, a rallying point, for opinions and interests which the ascendant public opinion views with disfavour.
Seite 21 - WORSAAE (JJA)— INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF DENMARK, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.
Seite 70 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.