MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 24Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1871 |
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... means which I cannot understand , the treaty to which Russia had to submit is held to be far more binding than the treaty to which France has had to submit . To give formal notice that a treaty will no longer be regarded may not be ...
... means which I cannot understand , the treaty to which Russia had to submit is held to be far more binding than the treaty to which France has had to submit . To give formal notice that a treaty will no longer be regarded may not be ...
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... means to do us harm . If the name of England is beginning to be hateful in German ears , it is wholly the fault of England . It is because a kindred people , engaged , for once in the world's history , in purely righteous warfare ...
... means to do us harm . If the name of England is beginning to be hateful in German ears , it is wholly the fault of England . It is because a kindred people , engaged , for once in the world's history , in purely righteous warfare ...
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... means of national defence ? Need there , in short , be a military class ? It is hard to see any point of view in which the existence of a military class is other than an evil . The class in itself is surely not a desirable one . No ...
... means of national defence ? Need there , in short , be a military class ? It is hard to see any point of view in which the existence of a military class is other than an evil . The class in itself is surely not a desirable one . No ...
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... means deportment - a more staid presence than you have . He likes women to keep to their proper sphere , they should move well and have pretty feminine accomplishments , they have no need to think deeply ; I saw him shake his head this ...
... means deportment - a more staid presence than you have . He likes women to keep to their proper sphere , they should move well and have pretty feminine accomplishments , they have no need to think deeply ; I saw him shake his head this ...
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... mean to spend my Sundays with you . " This was an opening . " It would be far better " -Patience spoke awkwardly and stiffly ; she wanted to gain her point , and yet she was afraid of offending Patty - " far better if you came at once ...
... mean to spend my Sundays with you . " This was an opening . " It would be far better " -Patience spoke awkwardly and stiffly ; she wanted to gain her point , and yet she was afraid of offending Patty - " far better if you came at once ...
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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.