New MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 375 páginas |
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... reason that the British public remains all but indifferent to sanitary reform ; that though the science of epidemics , as a science , has been before the world for more than twenty years , nobody believes in it enough to act upon it ...
... reason that the British public remains all but indifferent to sanitary reform ; that though the science of epidemics , as a science , has been before the world for more than twenty years , nobody believes in it enough to act upon it ...
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... reasons of so strange an anomaly are to be approached with caution . It is a serious thing to impute motives to a vast body of men , of whom the majority are really respectable , kind - hearted , and use- ful ; and if , in giving one's ...
... reasons of so strange an anomaly are to be approached with caution . It is a serious thing to impute motives to a vast body of men , of whom the majority are really respectable , kind - hearted , and use- ful ; and if , in giving one's ...
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... reason of the willingness of Government seems to be that those who compose it are thoroughly awake to the impor- tance of the subject . But what can a poor Government do , whose strength consists ( as that of all English Govern- ments ...
... reason of the willingness of Government seems to be that those who compose it are thoroughly awake to the impor- tance of the subject . But what can a poor Government do , whose strength consists ( as that of all English Govern- ments ...
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... reason , that they had no middle class . If they did work well , ( which is a question , ) it was just because they had no middle class that class - which , in a free State , is the very 16 KINGSLEY'S NEW MISCELLANIES .
... reason , that they had no middle class . If they did work well , ( which is a question , ) it was just because they had no middle class that class - which , in a free State , is the very 16 KINGSLEY'S NEW MISCELLANIES .
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... reason to talk of representative institutions being on their trial . And it is one of the few hopeful features of the present time , that an attempt is at last being made to secure for educated men of all professions a fair territorial ...
... reason to talk of representative institutions being on their trial . And it is one of the few hopeful features of the present time , that an attempt is at last being made to secure for educated men of all professions a fair territorial ...
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Página 317 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 285 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 117 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 117 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 81 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 316 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 114 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
Página 291 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 14 - And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.