The Living Age, Volume 252Living Age Company, 1907 - American periodicals |
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... fact , for patri- archal and military civilizations ; even as , nowadays , individuals too good for strenuous commercialism find them- selves discouraged in a quieter though equally cruel way . And not only in- dividuals have been ...
... fact , for patri- archal and military civilizations ; even as , nowadays , individuals too good for strenuous commercialism find them- selves discouraged in a quieter though equally cruel way . And not only in- dividuals have been ...
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... facts grouped and accentuated into his special intellectual pattern , life is a ceaseless becoming . But looked ... fact of individual pain , discomfort , distress , and its poor younger sister , individual satisfaction ? Would you ...
... facts grouped and accentuated into his special intellectual pattern , life is a ceaseless becoming . But looked ... fact of individual pain , discomfort , distress , and its poor younger sister , individual satisfaction ? Would you ...
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... fact has been a little blinked by utilitarians and moralists , so I wish to insist on it : yes , the human race might have come to an end but for satisfactions and allevi- ations which have sometimes cost degradation and disease and an ...
... fact has been a little blinked by utilitarians and moralists , so I wish to insist on it : yes , the human race might have come to an end but for satisfactions and allevi- ations which have sometimes cost degradation and disease and an ...
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... fact of the ex- istence , to a very large degree , of ma- rine fauna in Antarctic waters . " All was fish that came to their net ! " noth- ing was overlooked or thrown away ; even the apparent refuse in the dredge was carefully ...
... fact of the ex- istence , to a very large degree , of ma- rine fauna in Antarctic waters . " All was fish that came to their net ! " noth- ing was overlooked or thrown away ; even the apparent refuse in the dredge was carefully ...
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... fact that few , if any , manufacturers are called upon to give away , and do give away , so large a proportion of their manufactures as we do , and receive so little credit for it . All the standard literature of the world , both ...
... fact that few , if any , manufacturers are called upon to give away , and do give away , so large a proportion of their manufactures as we do , and receive so little credit for it . All the standard literature of the world , both ...
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Page 431 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 570 - All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all : Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth.
Page 185 - 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.
Page 185 - 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...
Page 312 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 185 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 647 - That to guard for the future against an undue exercise of that power by the Lords, and to secure to the Commons their rightful control over taxation and supply, this House has in its own hands the power so to impose and remit taxes and to frame bills of supply that the right of the Commons as to the matter, manner, measure, and time may be maintained inviolate.
Page 387 - The waters which fall from this horrible precipice do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off.
Page 647 - Tbat all aids and supplies, and aids to His Majesty In Parliament, are the sole gift of the Commons; and all Bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that It is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit, and appoint In such Bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants: which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords.
Page 136 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.