 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...I have heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of The Times on- the liegistrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who...to be received among the sheep as a matter of right ! Bodily health and vigor, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere... | |
 | 1867
...to look beyond them ! Why, I have heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of The Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births...to be received among the sheep as a matter of right ! Bodily health and vigor, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 832 pages
...to look beyond them 1 "Why, I have heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of The Time* on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births...itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them ; aa if the British Philistine would have only to present himself before the Great Judge with his twelve... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...to look beyond them ! Why, I have heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of The Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births...of right ! But bodily health and vigour, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere machinery ; they have a more real and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had...right ! •'But bodily health and vigour, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere machinery; they have a more real and... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had...sheep as a matter of right ! But bodily health and vigor, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere machinery ; they have... | |
 | sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland (13th bart.) - 1884 - 150 pages
...without the means of supporting them," or "who talk," as Mr. Matthew Arnold says, " of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself quite beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them." We shall try, hereafter, to indicate some of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1891 - 438 pages
...Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had...of right ! But bodily health and vigour, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere machinery ; they have a more real and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1896 - 56 pages
...Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had...sheep as a matter of right ! But bodily health and vigor, it may be said, are not to be classed with wealth and population as mere machinery ; they have... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in 20 this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had...to present himself before the Great Judge with his 25 twelve children, in order to be received among the sheep as a matter of right ! But bodily health... | |
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Why, one has heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of the Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in... 
