The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 15American publishing Company, 1904 |
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 15 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 15 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 15 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
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Página 112 - the advantages of nature and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the Lord and Master of them all should by any manifest declaration of His will set one above
Página 239 - that was an occasion only: if it had not been that, it would have been something else. Here we have the two necessary traits in the character of a great people: the love and the habit of civil liberty and religious conviction and independence. Allied to these is another
Página 74 - private possessions; on this the soul of every citizen hangs suspended, and can attend to nothing but his daily gain; mankind are ready to learn any branch of knowledge and to follow any pursuit which tends to this end, and they laugh at
Página 75 - The citizen must, indeed, be happy and good, and the legislator will seek to make him so; but very rich and very good at the same time he cannot be; not at least in the sense in which
Página 76 - profligate, and therefore poor; while he who spends on noble objects, and acquires wealth by just means only, can hardly be remarkable for riches any more than he can be very poor. The argument, then, is right in declaring that the very rich are not good, and if they are not good they are not happy. And the conclusion of Plato is that we
Página 76 - be utterly bad, but as I was saying, a good man he never is. For he who receives money unjustly as well as justly, and spends neither justly nor unjustly, will be a rich man if he be also thrifty. On the other hand, the utterly bad
Página 344 - in glass windows remain only because of the cost of replacing them with white panes. He would like to stop the wakes, guilds, paternities, church-ales, and brides-ales, with all their rioting, and he thinks they could get on very well without the feasts of apostles, evangelists, martyrs, the holy-days after Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and those of the Virgin Mary, with the rest.
Página 112 - be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the Lord and Master of them all should by any manifest declaration of His will set one above