MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 24Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1871 |
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... Government , but it looks very much as if it would do neither . Then it is plain that , if purchase is to be abolished , the other abuses , the jobs and sinecures , as they seem to the common understanding , are to go on . Is it worth ...
... Government , but it looks very much as if it would do neither . Then it is plain that , if purchase is to be abolished , the other abuses , the jobs and sinecures , as they seem to the common understanding , are to go on . Is it worth ...
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... government has so utterly failed to make the Irish race sensible of the blessings guaranteed by English law . Very few , however , among English students of Irish history , carry back their researches into that age pre- ceding English ...
... government has so utterly failed to make the Irish race sensible of the blessings guaranteed by English law . Very few , however , among English students of Irish history , carry back their researches into that age pre- ceding English ...
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... government capable of with- standing a handful of Norman knights , and how she could have degenerated from the golden age on which they dwell so fondly , to the helpless and wretched plight in which Henry II . found her . II . Let me ...
... government capable of with- standing a handful of Norman knights , and how she could have degenerated from the golden age on which they dwell so fondly , to the helpless and wretched plight in which Henry II . found her . II . Let me ...
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... government or misgovernment by England , but , for the most part , of government under native rulers , with little interference on the part of English sovereigns . Those were days in which the presence of a king in person was of far ...
... government or misgovernment by England , but , for the most part , of government under native rulers , with little interference on the part of English sovereigns . Those were days in which the presence of a king in person was of far ...
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... government . Some of the ablest sovereigns in our history , Henry VIII . , Elizabeth , and William III . , grappled vigorously with the Irish question during the period now under review . They were aided by such counsellors as Burleigh ...
... government . Some of the ablest sovereigns in our history , Henry VIII . , Elizabeth , and William III . , grappled vigorously with the Irish question during the period now under review . They were aided by such counsellors as Burleigh ...
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Page 50 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 277 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 194 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 222 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Page 150 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
Page 45 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Page 41 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 351 - I cannot read them now. — 0 gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 45 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 278 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.