 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...more liberty of action and of speaking hero than anywhere else in the Old World." We come again hero upon Mr. Roebuck's celebrated definition of happiness,...have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there were, only the Barbarians and the Philistines to do what they liked, but to be getting... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1864 - 446 pages
...AngloSaxon 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 be... | |
 | 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...our system of checks and every Englishman doing as ho likes, which wo have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there wcro only the... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...British form 'of Atheism, the second, a peculiarly British form of Quietism. The first-named melancholy doctrine is preached in The Times with great clearness...have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there were only the Barbarians and the Philistines to do what they liked, but to be getting... | |
 | 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
...happiness, on which I have so often commented: "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...have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there were only the • Barbarians and the Philistines to'ckv'what they liked, but to be getting... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1883 - 404 pages
...Anglo-Saxon ra.ce, the best breed in the whole world ! I pray that o\ar unrivalled happiness may last ! I ask you whether the world over or in past history, there is anythinlike it ? And so long as criticism answers this dithyramb by msisting that the old Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1891 - 438 pages
...happiness, on which I have so often commented: "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...have already seen to have been convenient enough so long as there were only the Barbarians and the Philistines to do what they liked, but to be getting... | |
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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, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last. 
