The North British review1854 |
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Strana 34
... circumstance that the bare possibility here referred to , that a star may have passed from the state of chaos into that of an orderly world , is the actual fact with regard to our own Earth , we ask our reader's attention to the equally ...
... circumstance that the bare possibility here referred to , that a star may have passed from the state of chaos into that of an orderly world , is the actual fact with regard to our own Earth , we ask our reader's attention to the equally ...
Strana 50
... circumstances and custom ; as he grows up , he steps into the vacant niche in the community which was waiting for him , ( or if not vacant , he waits for it , ) without any thought of exchanging it for a different one , or struggling ...
... circumstances and custom ; as he grows up , he steps into the vacant niche in the community which was waiting for him , ( or if not vacant , he waits for it , ) without any thought of exchanging it for a different one , or struggling ...
Strana 54
... circumstances ; having apparently got rid of all social injustices and inequalities that affect persons of Caucasian race and of the male sex , while the proportion of population to capi- tal and land is such as to ensure abundance to ...
... circumstances ; having apparently got rid of all social injustices and inequalities that affect persons of Caucasian race and of the male sex , while the proportion of population to capi- tal and land is such as to ensure abundance to ...
Strana 63
... circumstance would make . All who have had to do with the poor know how directly , how inevitably , how rapidly , a ... circumstances he may be , a fondness for the embellishments and amenities of * Mr. Porter has shown that this amount ...
... circumstance would make . All who have had to do with the poor know how directly , how inevitably , how rapidly , a ... circumstances he may be , a fondness for the embellishments and amenities of * Mr. Porter has shown that this amount ...
Strana 65
... circumstances ! The same difference of character in the two people manifests itself in other ways . An English artisan will spend any extra earnings in adding to his comforts or luxuries , -a French one in purchasing another ornament ...
... circumstances ! The same difference of character in the two people manifests itself in other ways . An English artisan will spend any extra earnings in adding to his comforts or luxuries , -a French one in purchasing another ornament ...
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Strana 52 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Strana 483 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
Strana 52 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.
Strana 477 - Far off ; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole ; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his...
Strana 477 - Brimming, and bright, and large; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles...
Strana 483 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides.
Strana 179 - their bluest veins to kiss' — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Strana 184 - I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Strana 146 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically.
Strana 460 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.