The Age and Its Architects: Ten Chapters on the English People, in Reference to the TimesCharles Gilpin, 1850 - 439 páginas |
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... kind of omnipotence : science has given to our age a feeling of haughty ambition , an overweening contempt , a vulgar strut ; hence we hear frequently of the greatness of man , the godhead of man , things profoundly true in them- selves ...
... kind of omnipotence : science has given to our age a feeling of haughty ambition , an overweening contempt , a vulgar strut ; hence we hear frequently of the greatness of man , the godhead of man , things profoundly true in them- selves ...
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... kind , would sedulously find out what they were fit for , and set about it as soon as the task was found . Time was , when every child was born to labour : the first resi- dents on our globe were neither idlers nor savages , and the ...
... kind , would sedulously find out what they were fit for , and set about it as soon as the task was found . Time was , when every child was born to labour : the first resi- dents on our globe were neither idlers nor savages , and the ...
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... kind for the tenure of the manor , such as reaping , harrowing , felling timber , draining fish ponds , & c . The Norman conquest reduced to * Auld Laws of Scotland , Buke ii . Chap . 12 , quoted by Sir F. M. Eden . serfdom and bondage ...
... kind for the tenure of the manor , such as reaping , harrowing , felling timber , draining fish ponds , & c . The Norman conquest reduced to * Auld Laws of Scotland , Buke ii . Chap . 12 , quoted by Sir F. M. Eden . serfdom and bondage ...
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... of all the charities that soothe and bless man- kind . This inquiry guides us to a sad phenomenon in our social life , namely , the constant drafting away of the population from the country to the town . THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 89.
... of all the charities that soothe and bless man- kind . This inquiry guides us to a sad phenomenon in our social life , namely , the constant drafting away of the population from the country to the town . THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS . 89.
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... kind voice speaks to sympathise and to cheer , in that dark circle where the shadows of guilt and unhallowed pleasure perpetually obtrude , where the tumult of licentiousness and sin are per- petually heard , where the terrible struggle ...
... kind voice speaks to sympathise and to cheer , in that dark circle where the shadows of guilt and unhallowed pleasure perpetually obtrude , where the tumult of licentiousness and sin are per- petually heard , where the terrible struggle ...
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Página 407 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 405 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 408 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 237 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Página 273 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 250 - At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.
Página 172 - The limits of the sphere of dream, The bounds of true and false, are past. Lead us on, thou wandering gleam, Lead us onward, far and fast, To the wide, the desert waste. But see, how swift advance and shift, Trees behind trees, row by row, — How, clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho ! ho ! How they snort, and how they blow...
Página 117 - Meanwhile . at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests,— spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Página 198 - Labour's fair child, that languishes with wealth ? Go, then ! and see them rising with the sun, Through a long course of daily toil to run ; See them beneath the dog-star's raging heat, When the knees tremble and the temples beat ; Behold them, leaning on their scythes, look o'er The labour past, and toils to come explore ; See them alternate suns and showers engage, And hoard up aches and anguish for their age...
Página 52 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...