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... true , see nothing but improvement , illusions vanishing , truth and justice taking the place of chimeras and folly . The optimist view of things is so comfortable that we accept those who profess it most loudly for our most trusted ...
... true , see nothing but improvement , illusions vanishing , truth and justice taking the place of chimeras and folly . The optimist view of things is so comfortable that we accept those who profess it most loudly for our most trusted ...
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... Catholic tradition . acceptance of it by Mr. Gladstone illustrates at once his tendency to dispense with accurate knowledge in The bounding to his conclusions , and the true direction in 1872 ] 11 Political Prospects .
... Catholic tradition . acceptance of it by Mr. Gladstone illustrates at once his tendency to dispense with accurate knowledge in The bounding to his conclusions , and the true direction in 1872 ] 11 Political Prospects .
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... true direction in which his mental sympathies continue to incline . There are certain principles of thought which rule the liberal and scientific judgment of the modern world . A leader of the Liberal party who does not accept one of ...
... true direction in which his mental sympathies continue to incline . There are certain principles of thought which rule the liberal and scientific judgment of the modern world . A leader of the Liberal party who does not accept one of ...
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... true that assent must be ab- solute and unqualified . A qualified acceptance of a contract is no ac- ceptance at all . It is a new offer , itself requiring acceptance ; and in the same sense it may be denied that a qualified assent to a ...
... true that assent must be ab- solute and unqualified . A qualified acceptance of a contract is no ac- ceptance at all . It is a new offer , itself requiring acceptance ; and in the same sense it may be denied that a qualified assent to a ...
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... true ; that is , he feels no doubt whatever on the subject , because he knows that such announcements are usually true , and does not care to en- quire into matters with which he has no concern . Next day he reads in the same paper a ...
... true ; that is , he feels no doubt whatever on the subject , because he knows that such announcements are usually true , and does not care to en- quire into matters with which he has no concern . Next day he reads in the same paper a ...
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Page 152 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever ; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 293 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 369 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Page 534 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 676 - OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE WHAT PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS BELONGING TO PRIVATE FAMILIES AND INSTITUTIONS ARE EXTANT WHICH WOULD BE OF UTILITY IN THE ILLUSTRATION OF HISTORY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, SCIENCE AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Date. 1870 (Reprinted 1874.) 1871 1872 (Reprinted 1895.) 1873 FIUST REPORT, WITH APPENDIX Contents : — ENGLAND. House of Lords ; Cambridge Colleges ; Abingdon and other Corporations, &c. SCOTLAND. Advocates' Library, Glasgow Corporation, &c.
Page 96 - ... a child of singular abilities: quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt, bodily or mentally — to suggest that something might have been spared, as certainly it might have been, to place me at any common school. Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any sign. My father and mother were quite satisfied. They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school and going to Cambridge.
Page 96 - I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastrycooks' doors, and spent in that the money I should have kept for my dinner. Then, I went without my dinner, or bought a roll or a slice of pudding.
Page 95 - But, in the ease of his temper, and the straitness of his means, he appeared to have utterly lost at this time the idea of educating me at all, and to have utterly put from him the notion that I had any claim upon him, in that regard, whatever. So I degenerated into cleaning his boots of a morning, and my own ; and making myself useful in the work of the little house; and looking after my younger brothers and sisters (we were now six in all) ; and going on such poor errands as arose out of our poor...
Page 367 - Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries and of making satisfactory provision for the future...
Page 648 - I've done my share as an ordinary man of business. Somebody has said it's a fine thing to make two ears of corn grow where only one grew before; but, sir...