...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...

...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,...there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivaled happiness may last. (272) One of the effects of such complacency is to make political change...

...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,...there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivaled happiness may last. (272) One of the effects of such complacency is to make political change...

...have seen them will remember;— the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is [not] very much...

...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,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last. Arnold confronts the political speeches with a story "on which I had stumbled in a newspaper": A shocking...

...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,...Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.' ' The capacity to act or think generously is, of course, a function of the intellectual and moral character...

...3:289) Arnold uses irony to make his indictment of those who appeal to England's unparalleled comforts ("I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" [3:272]), forgetting the plight of Wragg and company. Arnold's "vivacity" and his humanism combine...

...have seen them will remember; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether, the world over or in past history; there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer: but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much to be...

...have seen them will remember — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much to be...

...who have seen them will remember;—the gloom, the cold, the smoke, the strangled illegitimate child! "I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?" Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is [not] very much...