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... original fortress of the monarchy . If Mr. Burke , in his day , called the members of the Constituent Assembly " the best architects of ruin the world ever saw , " what would he have thought of the Communists and the Democrats of the ...
... original fortress of the monarchy . If Mr. Burke , in his day , called the members of the Constituent Assembly " the best architects of ruin the world ever saw , " what would he have thought of the Communists and the Democrats of the ...
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... original purpose to become a model poor - house , maintained at the expense of the proprietor instead of the commu- nity at large . It is severe enough to make the capitalist contribute his proportionate rate to the state for the ...
... original purpose to become a model poor - house , maintained at the expense of the proprietor instead of the commu- nity at large . It is severe enough to make the capitalist contribute his proportionate rate to the state for the ...
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... original genius . We who behold the river sweeping past us in the full tide of its course , after it has received the waters of a thou- sand tributary springs , are too apt to forget the obstacles which impeded and delayed the progress ...
... original genius . We who behold the river sweeping past us in the full tide of its course , after it has received the waters of a thou- sand tributary springs , are too apt to forget the obstacles which impeded and delayed the progress ...
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... original nucleus ; and if one generation choose to perform a double task of labour , that their descendants may enjoy a life of ease , what law , founded upon the prin- ciples of common justice , can be framed to prevent them from so ...
... original nucleus ; and if one generation choose to perform a double task of labour , that their descendants may enjoy a life of ease , what law , founded upon the prin- ciples of common justice , can be framed to prevent them from so ...
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... original imperfec- tions which attend the condition of the poor man at his birth , M. Blanc declares that competition starves him through life , and effectually keeps him in a con- tinuous state of destitution . To remedy this evil ...
... original imperfec- tions which attend the condition of the poor man at his birth , M. Blanc declares that competition starves him through life , and effectually keeps him in a con- tinuous state of destitution . To remedy this evil ...
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Page 496 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 277 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 494 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Page 496 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Page 489 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 494 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels jtiin'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 204 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Page 424 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 218 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Page 497 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.