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Página 209
We put aside for a brief period our more philosophical abstract speculations , to
consider specifically the phenomena of the political world , over which a great
change has lately passed . When we last looked at it , Lord Palmerston and M ...
We put aside for a brief period our more philosophical abstract speculations , to
consider specifically the phenomena of the political world , over which a great
change has lately passed . When we last looked at it , Lord Palmerston and M ...
Página 418
What can have been the cause of so much confusion and contradiction amongst
political economists and politicians in general ? is it negligence or indifference ,
or want of genius , or want of method ? or all these defects combined ? A very ...
What can have been the cause of so much confusion and contradiction amongst
political economists and politicians in general ? is it negligence or indifference ,
or want of genius , or want of method ? or all these defects combined ? A very ...
Página 419
But , in the absence of a complete social science , politicians might have
discovered a general system of guarantee , and mutual ... It is merely a general
application , on a political scale , of the principles already applied to private
companies for ...
But , in the absence of a complete social science , politicians might have
discovered a general system of guarantee , and mutual ... It is merely a general
application , on a political scale , of the principles already applied to private
companies for ...
Página 421
No wonder that philosophers and politicians should be divided in their opinions
concerning civil and political institutions of an incoherent nature ; for , as
incoherency in every degree is contrary to the natural laws of harmony , every
institution ...
No wonder that philosophers and politicians should be divided in their opinions
concerning civil and political institutions of an incoherent nature ; for , as
incoherency in every degree is contrary to the natural laws of harmony , every
institution ...
Página 426
It is the ignorance of pending danger which lulls the thoughtless multitude in
delusive security ; but those who see the dark spot in the political horizon , are
fully apprehensive of an approaching storm . It must also be remembered that the
...
It is the ignorance of pending danger which lulls the thoughtless multitude in
delusive security ; but those who see the dark spot in the political horizon , are
fully apprehensive of an approaching storm . It must also be remembered that the
...
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Página 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.