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... wrong , which gives to all human laws their sanction and their meaning , and by which all laws , whether they express the will of the many or of the few , must be tried - who does not feel that he , single and unsupported , is called ...
... wrong , which gives to all human laws their sanction and their meaning , and by which all laws , whether they express the will of the many or of the few , must be tried - who does not feel that he , single and unsupported , is called ...
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... wrong most severely is not generally the man who is in the best state for calmly ascer- taining the causes of the wrong . The child which feels the pin that pricks knows better than any one can tell it that there is something wrong ...
... wrong most severely is not generally the man who is in the best state for calmly ascer- taining the causes of the wrong . The child which feels the pin that pricks knows better than any one can tell it that there is something wrong ...
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... wrong vote is small ; it is not so that we measure responsibility . If there be a million voters , and a man votes corruptly , it is true , it is but the millionth part of the injury which may arise from a bad law that is attributable ...
... wrong vote is small ; it is not so that we measure responsibility . If there be a million voters , and a man votes corruptly , it is true , it is but the millionth part of the injury which may arise from a bad law that is attributable ...
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... wrong ; when we speak of taste , we mean the faculty of distinguishing that which is fitting from that which is unbecoming . There are many things which are neither right nor wrong , but which are yet offensive to good taste . It is not ...
... wrong ; when we speak of taste , we mean the faculty of distinguishing that which is fitting from that which is unbecoming . There are many things which are neither right nor wrong , but which are yet offensive to good taste . It is not ...
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... wrong , this country has reason to be proud , for few other soils could produce them ; men who felt that law is but an expression of a divine will , that the sovereign is the symbol of that will , and therefore in their way talked , too ...
... wrong , this country has reason to be proud , for few other soils could produce them ; men who felt that law is but an expression of a divine will , that the sovereign is the symbol of that will , and therefore in their way talked , too ...
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Page 176 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 110 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 5 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 164 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 144 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 156 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 279 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 7 - As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a
Page 114 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 125 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...