 I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not property safe ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history,...  The National Review - Page 241edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 680 pages
...reasonable speech at Sheffield, said, " I look around me and I ask myself what is the state of England? Is not property safe? Is not every man able to say what he likes? Cannot you walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you, the world over,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1865 - 334 pages
...Sheffield cutlers : — " I look around me and ask what is the state of England 1 Is not property safe 1 Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you...one end of England to the other in perfect security 1 I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1865 - 534 pages
...It tortures him when, in similar mood, Mr. Roebuck, wondering at the state of England, exclaims, ' I ask you whether, the world ' over or in past history,...' I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.' O the fatuity of the average member of Parliament, addressing his constituents ! Does he road the newspapers,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 928 pages
...ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether tho world over, or in past history, there is anything...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as ho likes, which wo have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...Anglo-Saxon race, the best breed in the whole world ! I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last! I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ! ' And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by insisting that the old Anglo-Saxon race would... | |
 | Edward Dowden - English literature - 1878 - 542 pages
...talk to the Sheffield cutlers about " our unrivalled happiness." " I ask you," said Mr. Roebuck, " whether the world over, or in past history, there...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Writing at a date before the repeal of the Corn Laws, it is assuredly not our unrivalled happiness... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
..."I look around me and ask what is the state of England 1 Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks and every Englishman doing as he likes, which we have... | |
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