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Page ii
... Lord Monboddo that man sprang from an ape , or with yon ' learned divine that he descends from the angels , he is still - a man .'-- Mackenzie , 1781 . ' If a company keeps a steam fire engine , the firemen need not be straining ...
... Lord Monboddo that man sprang from an ape , or with yon ' learned divine that he descends from the angels , he is still - a man .'-- Mackenzie , 1781 . ' If a company keeps a steam fire engine , the firemen need not be straining ...
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... Lord Chesterfield - The English accused of Want of Geist - Mr . Arnold - Art in Silver - Gerome -Meissonnier - English Landscape - Want of London Manage- ment 142 CHAPTER XII . SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE . CONTENTS . XI.
... Lord Chesterfield - The English accused of Want of Geist - Mr . Arnold - Art in Silver - Gerome -Meissonnier - English Landscape - Want of London Manage- ment 142 CHAPTER XII . SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE . CONTENTS . XI.
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... Lord , ' The kingdom of God is within you . ' You and I , the universal I , all of us , have within us a domestic God or Judge . He knows whether we do right or wrong ; he is always with us . I cannot escape him ; I carry him with me ...
... Lord , ' The kingdom of God is within you . ' You and I , the universal I , all of us , have within us a domestic God or Judge . He knows whether we do right or wrong ; he is always with us . I cannot escape him ; I carry him with me ...
Page 43
... Lords seems afflicted — it will be well to cut and prune away that part , so that the other be not poisoned by it . Speculation , doubt , a weighing of matters over and over again , is not the chief end of man ; it is prompt and ...
... Lords seems afflicted — it will be well to cut and prune away that part , so that the other be not poisoned by it . Speculation , doubt , a weighing of matters over and over again , is not the chief end of man ; it is prompt and ...
Page 53
... Lord Dun- dreary , who could not speak , look , talk , or walk properly ; who was selfish , stupid , cunning , and mean , as the women say , ' to a degree ; ' who , in most matters of life , was no better than a half - witted creature ...
... Lord Dun- dreary , who could not speak , look , talk , or walk properly ; who was selfish , stupid , cunning , and mean , as the women say , ' to a degree ; ' who , in most matters of life , was no better than a half - witted creature ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.